trounce

English - Turkish

Definition of trounce in English Turkish dictionary: {f} bozguna uğratmak; paylamak; pataklamak; döv; yenmek; sopa çekmek; dayak atmak; dövmek; {f} bozguna/büyük bir yenilgiye uğratmak; dili yenilgiye uğratmak; x bozguna uğrat/sopa çek; {f} fırça atmak; azarlamak
to punish: cezalandırmak

English - English

Definition of trounce in English English dictionary: to beat severely; thrash; to punish; to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily
The American team trounced the Mexicans by 10 goals to 1.; {v} to punish, beat, harass, sue, cheat; {f} beat, vanquish; thrash, punish; baffle, bewilder; If you trounce someone in a competition or contest, you defeat them easily or by a large score. In Rugby League, Australia trounced France by sixty points to four. = thrash. to defeat someone completely; beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"; To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate; come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"; censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
trounced: past of trounce
trouncer: {i} punisher, beater; one who baffles, one who bewilders
trouncer: One who trounces
trouncing: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
trouncing: a sound defeat

trounce

Turkish pronunciation

trauns

Synonyms

bash, beat, blank, bury, bust, cap, clobber, conquer, cook one’s goose, crush, drub, dust, fix one’s wagon, flog, hammer

Antonyms

fail, forfeit, lose

Pronunciation

/ˈtrouns/ /ˈtraʊns/

Etymology

[ 'traun(t)s ] (transitive verb.) 1868. Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. From French tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See truncheon.