trounce

• vt. 痛打；严责；打败

1. beat severely with a whip or rod;

"The teacher often flogged the students"

"The children were severely trounced"

2. 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"

3. 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"

词源不详，可能来自拉丁语 truncare,砍，切，词源同 truncate,trench.引申词义打败，击溃等。

1. Now, I'll show you how to trounce your husband.

现在, 我要教你怎样打败你的丈夫.

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2. You may want to reinforce your leadership in a market or trounce a competitive brand.

你也许想巩固自己的某个市场领导地位,或者打败一个竞争品牌.

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trounce (v.)

1550s, "to trouble, afflict, harass," later "to beat, thrash" (1560s), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle French troncer "to cut, cut off a piece from," from tronce "piece of timber," from Old French tronc (see trunk). Related: Trounced; trouncing.