Thesaurus results for TROUNCED

trounced

verb

Definition of trounced next

past tense of trounce

as in bombed

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 trounced The Knicks trounced the Sixers in Game 1, winning 137-98. —

Laura Fay, CBS News, 6 May 2026 William Contreras went 4 for 4 with a homer and four RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers overcame Brandon Woodruff’s early exit and trounced the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-1 on Thursday. —

ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 Villegas, a Marine Corps veteran from the Northwest Side who has been 36th Ward alderman since 2015, once had his sights set on Washington but was trounced in the 2022 race for the 3rd Congressional District on the Northwest Side. —

Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 Peter Magyar’s center-right Tisza trounced Orban’s Fidesz in parliamentary elections by a margin of nearly three-to-one, a stunning turn after so many years of Orban consolidating power with extrajudicial tools like gerrymandering, court-packing and the co-optation of an independent media. —

Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026 That propelled Cox to the general election, where he was trounced by Newsom. —

Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026 Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots. —

Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026 Rachel handily trounced Horan with a quiz all about Niall Horan. —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026 Thousands of Villa fans, who had watched their team get trounced 8-0 at Chelsea three days before, delayed their early exits from the ground just to applaud Bale off the pitch when he was substituted in the 85th minute. —

The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026

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Firms like Brookfield, GIP, BlackRock, and Stonepeak own networks of pipelines, terminals, tankers, and more — including many in the Middle East that are now under threat of being either bombed, or at least suspended from service.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
Right now, a synagogue in Iran has been destroyed; the Church of the Nativity has been bombed, along with many ancient sites across Lebanon.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 7 May 2026