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say it: trowns
trounce is a verb meaning "beat severely with a whip or rod". It carries 3 recorded senses.
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
“Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”
“We beat the competition”
“Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”
censure severely or angrily
“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
“The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”
“The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trounce come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.