Dictionary entry details
• TROUNCE (verb)
Meaning:
Beat severely with a whip or rod
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
welt; trounce; whip; lash; flog; slash; strap; lather
Context examples:
The teacher often flogged the students / The children were severely trounced
Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):
beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):
cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)
cowhide (flog with a cowhide)
switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)
horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)
leather (beat with a lather strap)
flagellate; scourge (whip)
birch (whip with a birch twig)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to trounce the prisoners
Meaning:
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
vanquish; beat out; beat; trounce; crush; shell
Context examples:
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship / We beat the competition / Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):
defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)
"Trounce" entails doing...:
win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):
best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)
outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)
overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)
checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)
immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)
outplay (excel or defeat in a game)
bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)
exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)
cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit)
outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)
walk over (beat easily)
eliminate (remove from a contest or race)
mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)
whomp (beat overwhelmingly)
rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)
get the jump (be there first)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to trounce his opponent
Meaning:
Censure severely or angrily
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
bawl out; take to task; scold; reproof; rebuke; have words; dress down; chide; berate; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; lambaste; call down; reprimand; lambast; lecture; remonstrate; trounce; jaw; rag
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):
castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)
brush down; tell off (reprimand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
