trouncing

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"I lived through the era of Windows trouncing Unix.

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a sound defeat

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noun

a sound defeat

noun

the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trouncing.

noun

a sound defeat

noun

the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

See also: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, whacking

Example sentences

"I lived through the era of Windows trouncing Unix.

We voted a bunch of folks who were trouncing on the Constitution out of office.

In those measures the 360 has been trouncing every other console maker.

'[T]he word "pardon" is trouncing "extradition"'To be fair, I think more people know the word "pardon" than the word "extradition"...

The article is about Sony but thought that tidbit was more interesting, Apple and Samsung are trouncing the "old guard.

IE is "trouncing" the competition and Windows 7 is the best OS "barring any Apple offering.

And Google is not only trouncing Apple, their only meaningful competitor, in that race...Google is pulling even further ahead.

>Funny, Final Cut X isn't a real tool, it's sad that Adobe are trouncing apple at the moment in the video spacePerhaps you are 1-2 years behind in the news.

You honestly think Uber would risk their customer's credentials to shut out a competitor they are already trouncing by most accounts?

We voted a bunch of folks who were trouncing the Constitution out of office and replaced them with people who've continued treating the founding document of the United States of America as toilet paper.

The committee around her panicked and the intelligence community went into defend the Senator mode, unfortunately trouncing the constitution in the process.