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English verb: trounce | |||
| 1. | trounce (contact) beat severely with a whip or rod | ||
| Samples | The teacher often flogged the students. The children were severely trounced. | ||
| Examples | They want to trounce the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beat, beat up, work over | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | birch, cat, cowhide, flagellate, horsewhip, leather, scourge, switch | ||
| 2. | trounce (competition) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | ||
| Samples | Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship. We beat the competition. Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game. | ||
| Examples | The fighter managed to trounce his opponent | ||
| Synonyms | beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | defeat, get the better of, overcome | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bat, best, cheat, checkmate, chicane, chouse, clobber, cream, drub, eliminate, exceed, get over, get the best, get the jump, have the best, immobilise, immobilize, jockey, lick, master, mate, mop up, outdo, outdo, outfight, outflank, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outplay, outpoint, outscore, outstrip, overcome, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, pip, rack up, rout, scoop, screw, shaft, spread-eagle, spreadeagle, subdue, surmount, surmount, surpass, thrash, trump, walk over, whip, whomp, worst | ||
| Entail | win | ||
| Verb group | beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach | ||
| 3. | trounce (communication) censure severely or angrily | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate, tell off | ||
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