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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To thrash; beat.
  2. v. To defeat decisively.
  3. v. To censure something or someone forcefully: "I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance” ( Robert Maxwell Stern).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To punish or beat severely; thrash or whip smartly; castigate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily
  2. v. transitive to punish
  3. v. transitive to beat severely; thrash.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. colloq. To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. beat severely with a whip or rod
  2. v. censure severely or angrily
  3. v. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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