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# trounce

«trounce» in Mova's school dictionary: **to beat them thoroughly, or to defeat them easily** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (trounces, trounced, trouncing)

### meaning for a pupil

To trounce someone is to beat them thoroughly, or to defeat them easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trounce/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hero trounces a monster or an enemy by beating it soundly

### examples

- Our team trounced them 9 to 0. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trounce/#x1)
- The hero trounced the troll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trounce/#x2)
- Ivan trounced the beast with the broken bow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trounce/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; in a score, 'trounce' means a big win, so the margin is the difference between the two scores.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trounce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trounce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.