Trounce | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

to trounce
To punish by course of law. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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...

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