1. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We trounced the other team on Sunday!";
   - cream [informal], clobber [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; defeat thoroughly
   "The champion trounced all challengers";
   - beat, beat out, crush, shell [US], vanquish
    
3. Censure severely or angrily
   "The manager trounced the team for their poor performance";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]
    
4. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   "The sailor was trounced for disobedience";
   - flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, whale [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: trounced, trounces, trouncing

Type of: beat, beat up, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], exceed, knock [informal], outdo, outgo [archaic], outmatch, outperform, outstrip, pick apart, surmount, surpass, work over [informal]