to trounce

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• Trounce

  ·vt To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to <<Flog>>; to <<Castigate>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to trounce

  To beat.--Halliwell. Colloquial in England and the United States. The Lord trounced Sisera, and all...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• trounce, to

  To beat or punish. An old word; in Mathew's translation of the Bible, 1537, we find, "The Lord troun...

  The Sailor's Word-Book