beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; “Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”; “We beat the competition”; “Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”
flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod; “The teacher often flogged the students”; “The children were severely trounced”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)
(transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
(transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
(transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
Synonyms: censure, rebuke (verbal punishment)
(transitive, Britain, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
trounce (plural trounces)
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced) (Britain, dialectal)
(intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
Synonym: trance (obsolete except dialectal)
(intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
Synonym: trance (obsolete except dialectal)
(intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
Synonym: trance (obsolete except dialectal)
trounce (plural trounces) (Britain, dialectal)
A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
Synonym: trance (obsolete except dialectal)
• Counter, Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, counter, counter-, countre, recount
Source: Wiktionary
Trounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing.] Etym: [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.]
Definition: To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
