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Examples of trouncing
trouncing
The Slovaks made the field here by trouncing Bulgaria 82-0 in a qualifying game.
From the stltoday.com
Three years ago, IBM realized that Sun was trouncing it in high-end server sales.
From the businessweek.com
Market research showed AOL and Yahoo were trouncing Google in the display market.
From the online.wsj.com
Last week Emerson got Australia off to a 1-0 lead by trouncing Pietrangeli 8-6.
From the time.com
The Republican Party is still grappling with its electoral trouncing last week.
From the independent.co.uk
The most recent win took place on September 25th, a 42-7 trouncing of Colgate.
From the thenewstribune.com
Look at the latest figures showing Android's trouncing growth in market share.
From the economist.com
Harrison was dumbfounded as to why the Texans bit so often in the 42-14 trouncing.
From the latimes.com
It was just two days after trouncing the North Queensland Cowboys in a trial match.
From the canberratimes.com.au
- Flog: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- Beat: 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"
- Call on the carpet: 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"
- (trouncing) thrashing: a sound defeat
- (trouncing) beating: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- To win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily; to punish; to beat severely; thrash
- To punish by course of law, or fist. TRUCK. To exchange, swop, or barter.
