trounce

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  1. transitive verb To thrash; beat.
  2. transitive verb To defeat decisively.
  3. intransitive verb 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).

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  • This time, they decided to butcher, trounce, and destroy Elvis '"T-R-O-U-B-L-E" ... —  All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content
  • But our friends at Palit wisely released their version of the 9800GT at $130, precisely in the price range of those cards that it will easily and soundly trounce. —  PCSTATS
  • That is especially true from within the diplomatic bell jar of the United Nations, where tact and expedience so often trounce ethics. —  Jack's Newswatch
  • Ratings: 'American Idol' and 'CSI' trounce Thursday's competition —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. 53\% of you correctly predicted that Batman, for the third week in a row, would trounce the competition, with $42.7 mil for last Friday through Sunday, as opposed to $40.5 mil for the Frasier flick. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Early modern English trounse; from Old French troncer, cut, mutilate, =Spanish tronzar, shatter, from Old French tronce, a piece of timber, tronche, a great piece of timber, a stump; cf. Old French tronc, trunk; cf. also tronçon, tronson, a truncheon; from Latin truncus, a trunk: see trunk and truncheon.
 

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