trounce
英[traʊns]
美[traʊns]
- vt. 痛打；严责；打败
英英释意
- 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"