Usually means: Defeats someone heavily in competition.
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  1. trounces: Merriam-Webster
  2. trounces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trounces: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trounces, trounces: Wordnik
  5. trounces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. trounces: Wiktionary
  7. trounces: Dictionary.com
  8. trounces: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. trounces: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trounces: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trounce)

verb:  (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
verb:  (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
verb:  (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
verb:  (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
noun:  An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
verb:  (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
noun:  A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
noun:  A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
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