trounced

verb

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 Drew Mestemaker became the first Bowl Subdivision player with four touchdown passes, one rushing touchdown and one receiving touchdown since Virginia’s Brennan Armstrong against BYU in 2021 as Oklahoma State trounced Kansas State 66-28 on Saturday. — ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026 Beyond ballot measures, municipal politicians with wishy-washy messaging around Flock bans were also trounced. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 6 Nov. 2026 Trump was trounced, the country triumphed, and the long national nightmare is over, but for the rest of his lame-duck presidency. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026 Fabrinet – The provider of advanced optical packaging jumped more than 10% after current-quarter guidance trounced the Street's estimates. — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026 In that prior race, Gimenez trounced Ehr by nearly 30 percentage points. — Michael Vasquez, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 Last year, the NFL trounced the NBA in the Christmas Day ratings, even with many of the league’s high-profile talents such as Patrick Mahomes not featuring due to injury. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026 But the Bears were absolutely trounced by a UCLA team that could run at will. — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The margin between the candidates was highest in Belmont, which Brownsberger won handily, and Boston, where Lander trounced the Senate leader. — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trounced
  1. bombed
  2. whipped
  3. overcame
  4. thrashed
  5. clobbered
  6. routed
  7. walloped
  8. upset
Verb
  • Looking ahead to the next quarter, things look less rosy for SPE, with The Social Reckoning and Klara and the Sun both already having bombed at the box office.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • In 1998, after Baghdad expelled UN weapons inspectors, the United States and the United Kingdom bombed Iraq.
    — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of bombed
Verb
  • The Falcons’ starting quarterback twirled a black string around his finger, then violently whipped it down after his first interception.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Brown became the leader of the House Trade Working Group, a caucus of Democratic representatives opposed to free-trade agreements who whipped votes on those deals.
    — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of whipped
Verb
  • Its weight got heavier and that weight overcame the plane’s capabilities.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Cutter Gauthier had his second career hat trick, scoring the go-ahead goal early in the third period, and the Ducks overcame a three-goal deficit to beat the Ottawa Senators 6-3 on Sunday night.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of overcame
Verb
  • Boyd, who maintained his innocence to the end, thrashed and convulsed for 40 minutes after prison officials attached a gas mask to his face, according to Hood and journalist Lee Hedgepeth, who witnessed Boyd’s execution.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But in an ironic twist, part of the parking lot was underwater, a tractor had raised a berm to hold back the ocean, and just to the south, homes were being thrashed by waves.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of thrashed
Verb
  • Musk spent at least $474 million, including $224 million in Texas, where his preferred candidates for governor and Senate both got clobbered.
    — Spencer Kimball,Garrett Downs,Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Justin Papp, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Then, last Sunday, a 1-5 Tampa Bay team waltzed into Bank of America Stadium and clobbered Carolina, 43-13.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of clobbered
Verb
  • Adrian Kempe had a hat trick and an assist, Quinton Byfield scored two goals, and the Los Angeles Kings routed the San Jose Sharks 7-2 on Wednesday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Adrian Kempe had a hat trick and an assist, Quinton Byfield scored two goals, and the Kings routed the San José Sharks 7-2 on Wednesday night.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of routed
Verb
  • Instead, Hilton debated like someone already preparing to launch a podcast or beg for his old Fox News job back after he gets walloped.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Just weeks after getting walloped by Hurricane Marie, residents on the peninsula in Long Beach are getting ready to do it all over again with Hurricane Polo.
    — Alys Martinez, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of walloped
Verb
  • But there’s a lot of moving pieces, including the fact that the singer was also recently upset by the fact that pictures of her wedding décor leaked.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Somehow Serra upset Sherman Oaks Notre Dame last week, then won a coin flip to finish in third place in the Mission League.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of upset

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“Trounced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trounced. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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