as in to overcome
to defeat by a large margin
our candidate trounced her opponent in the election, winning with 76% of the vote
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Recent Examples of trounce
Argyle trounced Fort Worth Chisholm Trail 8-0. Lauren Ellis punched in a loose ball in front of the net in the 2nd minute to give the Owls a 1-0 lead and that held up for the entire first half.
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Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Others trounced their competition, such as Santiago’s, which has restaurants across the Front Range, took 72% of the popular vote against D’Corazon.
—Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
Major Intermediate Buy Signal Still Intact The AAII Bull-Bear Spread residing at minus 40.1 continues to reflect a percentage of pessimists trouncing the optimists by a factor of 3, with recent readings some of the most Bearish in history, given that Main Street is usually Bullish.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
Others trounced their competition, such as Santiago’s, which has restaurants across the Front Range, took 72% of the popular vote against D’Corazon.
—Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trounce
Verb
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Not without its controversy, like life, the show has tried to demonstrate that family can overcome anything with love, laughter, and conversation.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
24 Apr. 2025
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Trailing 0-2, the Heat now faces a series deficit that not many NBA teams have overcome.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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The election of a pope can be interrupted, not stopped The pope's funeral will end when his wooden coffin is taken in procession from St. Peter's Basilica to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the church in Rome where he will be buried.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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We’re often still left burying our gays — or rooting for ships like Hacks’ Avorah — that will never happen.—
Ana Osorno,
Them.,
25 Apr. 2025
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The managers were followed by the drum major—not an ordinary drum major beating time for a band, mind you, but a performer out of the books, an artist with the baton.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Apr. 2025
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Comcast beat on a consensus estimate for revenues at $29.68 billion for the first quarter.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Late Devonian extinction, nearly four hundred million years ago, annihilated the jawless fish.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Just like a bank, however, the universe demands this energy to be paid back, which virtual particles do by annihilating each other.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Vonn took the super-combined and downhill titles the previous two days. 2014 — The Clippers rout the rival Lakers 142-94.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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But the Eagles put on a show to rout the defending champs 40-22.—
Paulina Dedaj,
Fox News,
11 Feb. 2025
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That means the weather was ripe for fire, and wind gusts of up to 25 miles per hour quickly whipped the fire toward inhabited areas.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2025
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As all the attention is being paid to President Donald Trump’s tariff policies that create international chaos and whip global markets into a frenzy, a stealthy change has emerged.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Trump's global trade war has already clobbered the stock market, raised the odds of a U.S. recession and started to push up inflation for American households with the prospect of much steeper price increases ahead.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Terps earned the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and clobbered No. 7 seed Illinois, 88-65, in Friday’s quarterfinal before suffering an 81-80 loss to No. 3 seed Michigan in Saturday’s semifinal.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2025
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The first pitch Sánchez threw registered at 93.7 mph, something of a red flag considering his sinker has sat at 96 mph all season.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The collection includes more than 200 items, including a wide range of bedding, bath towels and accessories, pillows, and throw blankets.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2025
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