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To beat severely; to thrash.
(RQ:Nashe Strange Newes)
(quote-book) Done out of Dutch|location=London|publisher=Printed for Abel Swalle,(nb...)|year=1684|page=152|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xANUAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA152|oclc=1121333964|passage=There is a Law among them that whoſoever beats one of thoſe Clerks ſo, that his Cap fall to the ground, he is liable to a very ſevere penalty (if I well remember to looſe his hand) which nevertheleſs happens frequently in the ''Cabac'': but to prevent the worſt when a Layman is minded to beat one of thoſe Muſhrooms, he firſt takes off his Cap and then trounces him off ſo long as he will, which done he ſets the Cap upon the right Block again.
(quote-journal)|month=March|year=1843|year_published=April 1843|volume=III|issue=4|page=89|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTRKAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA89|oclc=228662392|passage=O yez; take notice! that the first bad boy I find killing an innocent bird, or trouncing a poor frog, I will have no mercy on him.
(RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer)
To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially to win against (someone) by a wide margin.

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(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed by M. Simmons, and are to be sold by John Hancock(nb...)|year=1650|oclc=839062606|passage=''Mar''''ina''. ''Crowd'' the Fidler is not there: / And my mind delighted is / With no ſtroke ſo much as his. / ''Mop''''so''. If not he, / There will bee / ''Drone'' the Piper that will trounce it. / ''Mar''. But if ''Crowd'' / Struck alowd, / Lord me thinks how I could bounce it.
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(quote-book)&93; by offering to support her in a run for the governorship. Smith declined the offer and surprised everyone by trouncing three popular opponents in the Republican primary. She then went on to an easy victory in the general election.
(quote-book): Toughing It Out|series=Football’s New Wave|location=Brookfield, Conn.|publisher=Publishing GroupMillbrook Press|Millbrook Press|year=1999|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNLzRB9e1sAC&pg=PP45|isbn=978-0-7613-1514-8|passage=In the divisional playoff, the Broncos|Denver Broncos avenged their loss to the (w), trouncing them 38–3.
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To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.

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(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation)
(quote-journal)|month=September|year=1856|volume=CVIII|issue=CCCCXXIX|page=16|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ER8aAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16|oclc=6941153|passage=Though the senators are eminently courteous to each other, they have no more hesitation in speaking out their minds, upon occasion, than have the members of the States House of Representatives|House of Representatives. P. Hale|John Parker Hale, with H. Seward|William Henry Seward on his side, unmercifully trounces President Pierce|Franklin Pierce and the slaveholders; and General Cass|Lewis Cass, helped out by Mr. M. Clayton|John Middleton Clayton, most valiantly abuses England and John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston.
To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
(RQ:Pepys Diary)
(RQ:Salmon State Trials), in the Province of New-York, for High Treason, Anno 170(frac)|date=20 February 1702|page=556|column=1|passage=Whereupon Mr. ''Weaver'' did threaten them, and (to uſe his own Expreſſion) ''would cauſe them to be trounced'', taking down their Names. And the Grand Jury broke up without acting.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for G. Spavan,(nb...)|year=1737|section=act II, scene xii|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3JZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41|oclc=831170670|passage=And I have yet to graſp you left a Claw, / I'll trounce you, Sir, I'll hamper you with Law; / Witneſs I have of all that has been Spoken, / I'll bring an Action, for your Contract broken; / For Damages ſuſtain'd, I'll make you rue, / In ''Doctor's-Commons'' play the Devil too.
(quote-book), publishers, successors to (w),(nb...)|year=1867|volume=I|page=84|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGZGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84|oclc=1057954201|passage=As an ensign, stationed at Minorca, he &91;(w)&93; was enthusiastic in his sympathy for General Mostyn (British Army officer)|John Mostyn, when that Governor was trounced in an action for false imprisonment and other illegal treatment brought against him in the Common Pleas by Fabrigas.
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
(quote-book) and concentrating on a need for national health insurance, was a trounce and stunning upset.
To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
(quote-book); London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,(nb...)|year=1882|page=180|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015088589778&view=1up&seq=190|oclc=701027297|passage=There were no railways then—well, not in Hazelworth, at any rate—and as coach-fares would have absorbed most of our stock of "Sunday pennies," we had to "trounce" every inch of our way to Manchester.
(quote-book); London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,(nb...)|year=1884|page=25|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293005529940&view=1up&seq=29|oclc=221903318|passage=I am what a Yorkshireman would call a 'Lanky,' and perhaps as poor a specimen of the cotton county's human produce as ever trounced barefoot through its lanes, or shuddered at the sound of its factory bells.
To pass across or over; to traverse.
To travel quickly over a long distance.
(quote-book)|year=2005|page=286|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4k4W3wlhdXkC&pg=PA286|isbn=978-1-57856-885-7|passage=Lyra trounces into the kitchen, a smile on her face. "Good morning, everyone! Morning, Grandpa. Morning, Gramps."
A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
(quote-book); London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,(nb...)|year=1882|page=205|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015088589778&view=1up&seq=215|oclc=701027297|passage=An' what a trounce it's bin! I declare to goodness I'm as out o' wynt as an owd pair o' ballis, wi' walkin so far.
A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
(quote-book), Tràwwnce, (smallcaps)|title=A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland|series=Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Additions)|seriesvolume=VIII|location=London|publisher=Printed for the (w) by Trübner|Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=1878|page=106|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LNNAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA106|oclc=24890145|passage=Sec a ''trounce'' we've hed ower t' fells!|translation=Such a trounce we've had over the fells!