trounce
verb /traʊns/
/traʊns/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they trounce | /traʊns/ /traʊns/ |
| he / she / it trounces | /ˈtraʊnsɪz/ /ˈtraʊnsɪz/ |
| past simple trounced | /traʊnst/ /traʊnst/ |
| past participle trounced | /traʊnst/ /traʊnst/ |
| -ing form trouncing | /ˈtraʊnsɪŋ/ /ˈtraʊnsɪŋ/ |
- trounce somebody to defeat somebody completely
- Brazil trounced Italy 5–1 in the final.
- He was roundly trounced in last November’s election.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘afflict’): of unknown origin.