Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TROUNCE
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
Etymology 1
Verb
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.
Noun
trounce (plural trounces)
An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
Etymology 2
Verb
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)
Noun
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)
Anagrams
• 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
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