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Definition of Trounced
1. trounce [v] - See also: trounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trounced
Literary usage of Trounced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"... Savannah trounced. — Horse-Neck and Putnam's Home-Stretch down it. — Count
d'Estaing's Yachting. — Spain hankers for Gibraltar. ..."
2. Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and by Christopher Marshall (1849)
"... And death and deviltry denounced And told you how you'd soon be trounced?
I see to join our conquering side Heaven earth and hell at once ally'd. ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1905)
"Treacle always gets trounced. It'll be a lot better for me than giving me ...
And had not even her husband said: " trounced them," as if he thoroughly ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"But, later, when I recovered the feeling:; of noblesse, 'twas plain th.it the
same Petruchio was a mad-cap ruffian, who should have been soundly trounced as ..."
5. The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett (1892)
"As the parents of the pupils never interfered when teachers trounced the pupils,
neither did they interfere when the pupils trounced the teacher, ..."
6. The Irish Jurist (1853)
"not very friendly to the Irish church, declared his indifference to the general
amount of the proposed taxation, provided " the parsons were trounced," and ..."
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