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  • The high school basketball team trounced their rivals, winning by a score of 100 to 50.
    trounced = defeated decisively
  • He was trounced almost every night.  (source)
    trounced = beaten badly
  • 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.  (source)
    trouncing = physical punishment
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  • Hauled out and forced to run, Louie was trounced, and the guards made tittering mockery of him.†  (source)
  • We were evenly matched at most games, but he could trounce me at certain titles, especially anything in the first-person shooter genre.†  (source)
  • Within months of its debut in 1996, Blue's Clues was trouncing Sesame Street in the ratings.†  (source)
  • They hadn't won a game all year, and they had been recently trounced 8-0 by Lake Windsor Middle.†  (source)
  • You're not going to excel, and you're not going to trounce those thieves and soldiers and unknown assassins.†  (source)
  • He's away to the North trouncing those giants.†  (source)
  • She rolled the dice, bought the last available property, and once again we'd all been trounced by our sweet Grandma, the Monopoly champ.†  (source)
  • I trounce him.†  (source)
  • But his votes on Kansas and other Southern measures could not be explained away to an angry constituency, and Texas handed Sam Houston the first trouncing of his political career.†  (source)
  • You trounced me these last two terms, I was bound to catch a break sooner or later.†  (source)
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