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  • verb Present participle of trounce.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
  • noun a sound defeat

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Examples

  • If Florida's Democratic trouncing is any indication of what Americans think of the Tea Party's ideals, they're in really big trouble.

    View from the 'sidekick' seat on a Tea Party bus 2010

  • Memphis, which never trailed in trouncing Texas to reach the Final Four, struck back as Douglas-Roberts hit his first four shots.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • But the next day the little patriotic hero got a sound trouncing from the conquering Caesar.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1906 - Presentation Speech 1906

  • Your posted experience’s have been many but this last one tells and well dismisses so many of the ill received myths, media brain trouncing pushes people into corners fearing not to venture out and feel the world and the Mexican flavor, as you continue doing.

    Drive from Nogales to Sayulita 2009

  • Your posted experience’s have been many but this last one tells and well dismisses so many of the ill received myths, media brain trouncing pushes people into corners fearing not to venture out and feel the world and the Mexican flavor, as you continue doing.

    Drive from Nogales to Sayulita 2009

  • Your posted experience’s have been many but this last one tells and well dismisses so many of the ill received myths, media brain trouncing pushes people into corners fearing not to venture out and feel the world and the Mexican flavor, as you continue doing.

    Drive from Nogales to Sayulita 2009

  • Your posted experience’s have been many but this last one tells and well dismisses so many of the ill received myths, media brain trouncing pushes people into corners fearing not to venture out and feel the world and the Mexican flavor, as you continue doing.

    Drive from Nogales to Sayulita 2009

  • The Covenant School, a private Christian high school in Dallas, which formally apologized for the big win over Dallas Academy, a small private school for students with learning disabilities, last week, called the trouncing "shameful."

    ABC News: ABCNews 2009

  • A drawn-out court decision in '04 and a clear but unremarkable margin in' 08 when (R) turnout was down and (D) turnout was impressively large hardly makes for a 'trouncing'.

    Rossi vs. Murray: Survey USA vs. Rasmussen vs. Elway « PubliCola 2010

  • It is to be hoped that this was often considered an equivalent for the "trouncing" which was the common penalty of accident or inadvertence suffered by the Puritan child.

    The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

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