trounce /tɹaʊns/verb 7noun 3forms 3 verb7 •To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.The German team trounced the Brazilians by 7 goals to 1. •To beat severely; to thrash.I tell you, I meane to trounce him after twenty in the hundred, and have a bout with him with two staves and a pike for this geare. — 1592 •To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.Say I, write I, or dooe I, what I can, he will haunt and trounce me perpetually, with spiritish workes of supererogation, incessant tormentours of the civilian and devine. — 1593 •(dialect, UK) To travel quickly over a long distance.Lyra trounces into the kitchen, a smile on her face. "Good morning, everyone! Morning, Grandpa. Morning, Gramps." — 2005 •(dialect, UK) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.There were no railways then—well, not in Hazelworth, at any rate—and as coach-fares would have absorbed most of our stock of "Sunday pennies," we had to "trounce" every inch of our way to Manchester. — 1882 •(UK) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.Slept hard till 8 o'clock, then waked by Mr. Clerke's being come to consult me about Field's business, which we did by calling him up to my bedside, and he says we shall trounce him. — 1663 •(dialect, UK) To pass across or over; to traverse. noun3 •An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.She could hear the maid beating the pillows—a trounce for each—and tossing them into a pile where they fell with a plump. — 1928 •(dialect, UK) A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.An' what a trounce it's bin! I declare to goodness I'm as out o' wynt as an owd pair o' ballis, wi' walkin so far. — 1882 •(dialect, UK) A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.Sec a trounce we've hed ower t' fells! — 1878 formstrounced · trouncing · trounces
