trounces

verb

present tense third-person singular of trounce
as in overcomes
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 trounces Mansfield Timberview trounces Burleson Mansfield Timberview made another argument as to why it should be considered a state title contender. — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Sep. 2026 And even with a recession to date, English teams’ spending is hardly in terminal decline and still trounces that of all other nations. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2026 More importantly, the 10a barely improves on the 9a, and the iPhone 17e trounces them all. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trounces
  1. overcomes
  2. buries
  3. thrashes
  4. annihilates
  5. clobbers
  6. flattens
  7. beats
  8. whips
Verb
  • This approach overcomes limitations in thick-electrode battery manufacturing, creating higher-energy-density batteries suitable for long-range electric vehicles.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Maybe your favorite wrestler finally overcomes insurmountable odds to become a world champion.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of overcomes
Verb
  • Past a certain point, more preparation buries the message instead of sharpening it.
    — Lynn Smith, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The winter months pass, long nights, a bomb cyclone that buries my basement windows in snow and leaves me to lurk in the dark like a slumbering bear, and then spring arrives abrupt and clanging and golden.
    — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of buries
Verb
  • The spotted fish thrashes angrily, disturbing the waters so that the pool’s edge laps against the rock.
    — Maggie O’Farrell, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • The 16-year-old flails her arms, thrashes and kicks — sometimes for hours.
    — CalMatters, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
Definition of thrashes
Verb
  • And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Matter is so dominant in our universe that any antimatter typically encounters matter quickly and annihilates.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
Definition of annihilates
Verb
  • Aledo clobbers Abilene in one game Aledo (29-10) only needed five innings to take care of Abilene (27-12-1) in one game, winner takes all Class 5A Division I regional final.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2026
Definition of clobbers
Verb
  • The girls do their solos, and Ericka flattens Paulina like a tractor mowing down a patch of dandelions.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The balanced solvent treatment reshapes and flattens the top layer, while the chloride addition forces the bromide and iodide components to crystallize at the same time.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of flattens
Verb
  • There is an art to stylizing a position of interrogation in excess of its biomechanics, an art to how lockstep beats a cadence while a unit swells into an enveloping arc.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • RingEx beats Unite hands down here, with hundreds of integration options.
    — John Brandon, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of beats
Verb
  • Castro whips her head around and follows him, punching him in the back.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Green whips out his phone with the fluid motion of a digital native and snaps a photo.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of whips

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“Trounces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trounces. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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