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Definition

beat severely with a whip or rod;
or: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
or: censure severely or angrily

He was trounced almost every night.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

trounced = beaten badly

On Himmel Street, her team had trounced Rudy's 6-1, and triumphant, she burst into the kitchen, telling Mama and Papa all about the goal she'd scored.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

trounced = easily beaten

Or was it possible to trounce them and impose a peace?
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
He's away to the North trouncing those giants.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
"I'm a bit soggy," Pippa calls after we've thoroughly trounced her.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
With these new victories he went parading in to Gottlieb, and suddenly he was being trounced: "Oh!
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
They hadn't won a game all year, and they had been recently trounced 8-0 by Lake Windsor Middle.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom wondered if Red was going to try to trounce him, and for the first time he wasn't afraid.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
Within months of its debut in 1996, Blue's Clues was trouncing Sesame Street in the ratings.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
You trounced me these last two terms, I was bound to catch a break sooner or later.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
On these occasions he had not shrunk from trouncing his hearers with some vigorous home-truths.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Why is it Murtagh was able to trounce you on the Burning Plains, even though he was nowhere near as fast or strong as you?
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
There's no one left in the world I can defeat in chess, trounce—I can trounce the way I trounce you.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Now, I'll show you how to trounce your husband.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
The pieces themselves she performed quite rudely, as if she would trounce them.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
"I bet they won't expect to be trounced by a beautiful lady."
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
No need to trounce all over Kara-she could hardly be blamed.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
It was the same expression she wore when she had thoroughly trounced me in checkers.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
Once, during a brief halt, when he got tangled in the traces and delayed the start, both Dave and Solleks flew at him and administered a sound trouncing.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

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