trounce
verb (trounces, trounced, trouncing)
Everyday
To trounce someone is to beat them thoroughly, or to defeat them easily. tree →
In the lessons
in tales a hero trounces a monster or an enemy by beating it soundly
Examples
- Our team trounced them 9 to 0. tree →
- The hero trounced the troll. tree →
- Ivan trounced the beast with the broken bow. tree →
Note
nothing for maths; in a score, 'trounce' means a big win, so the margin is the difference between the two scores.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «trounce» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «trounce» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/trounce/