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trounce

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7 lettersPronunciation /tɹaʊns/Part of speech verbSorted cenortuStarts with TEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. censure severely or angrily

Word origin

The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning.

Used in a sentence

  • I tell you, I meane to trounce him after twenty in the hundred, and have a bout with him with two ſtaves and a pike for this geare.
  • 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.
  • The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.

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