OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 21201

trounce

/tɹaʊns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aplastar
To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.
What skill and dexterity soldiers, who are called together only once a week, may possess, in trouncing an enemy, which has already trounced half Europe, I will not pretend to deter…