English > trounce: 3 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Beat severely with a whip or rod. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | They want to trounce the prisoners |
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| Example | "The children were severely trounced" |
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| Synonyms | flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap |
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| Narrower | birch | Whip with a birch twig |
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| cat | Beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| cowhide | flog with a cowhide |
| flagellate, scourge | Whip |
| horsewhip | Whip with a whip intended for horses |
| leather | Whip with a leather strap |
| switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod |
| Broader | beat, beat up, work over | Give a beating to |
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| Spanish | azotar, flagelar, fustigar |
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| Catalan | assotar, fuetejar, fustigar |
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| Nouns | trouncing | the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows |
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English > trounce: 3 senses > verb 2, competition| Meaning | Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | The fighter managed to trounce his opponent |
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| Synonyms | beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
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| Entails | win | Be the winner in a contest or competition |
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| Narrower | cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
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| checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game / game / game |
| cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick | Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight |
| eliminate | Remove from a contest or race |
| get the best, have the best, overcome | Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome |
| get the jump | Be there first |
| immobilize, immobilise | make defenseless |
| outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop | get the better of |
| outfight | To fight better than |
| outplay | excel or defeat in a game / game / game |
| outpoint, outscore | score more points than one's opponents |
| overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master | Get on top of |
| overpower, overmaster, overwhelm | Overcome by superior force |
| spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout | defeat disastrously |
| surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform | Be or do something to a greater degree |
| walk over | Beat easily |
| whomp | Beat overwhelmingly |
| worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up | defeat thoroughly |
| Broader | get the better of, overcome, defeat | win a victory over |
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| Similar to | outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent | Beat through cleverness and wit |
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| Spanish | aplastar, bombardear, dar una paliza, derrotar, ganar, triunfar, vencer |
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| Catalan | conquerir, derrotar, guanyar, vèncer |
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| Nouns | trouncing | a sound defeat |
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