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  • 31Trouncing — Trounce Trounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trouncing}.] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See {Truncheon}.] To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 32Retention basin — Trounce Pond, a retention basin landscaped with natural grassland plants, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada …

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  • 33beat someone hollow — TROUNCE, defeat utterly, crush, rout, overwhelm, outclass; informal hammer, clobber, thrash, drub, lick, paste, crucify, slaughter, massacre, flatten, demolish, destroy, annihilate, walk over, wipe the floor with, make mincemeat of; Brit.… …

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  • 34Nutana, Saskatoon — Nutana redirects here. For other uses, see Nutana (disambiguation). Nutana   City of Saskatoon neighborhood   Farnam Block (1912) …

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  • 35thrash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. beat, spank, whip, flog, strike; defeat, overcome, conquer; thresh. See success, punishment. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To beat] Syn. trounce, flog, flail; see beat 2 , punish . 2. [To toss about] Syn …

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  • 36whip — I noun 1. an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: ↑instrument • Hyponyms: ↑cat o nine tails, ↑cat, ↑cowhide, ↑ …

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  • 37beat the stuffing out of — verb a) To beat really badly. If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you. b) To trounce, outdo, or triumph over. At the fiesta, the kids beat the stuffing out of the pinata,… …

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  • 38Trawin — Recorded in a wide range of spellings including Trew, Trewer, Trow, Trowe, Trower, Trown, Trawin, Trounce, and Trownson, this is an English surname. It has several possible origins. The famous Victorian etymologist Canon Charles Bardsley believed …

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  • 39Trouncer — Recorded in a range of spellings including Trounce, Trounson, Trownson, Trunchion and Trouncer, this is a medieval English surname, but one of early French origins. It derives from the word tronche, a word probably introduced at the time of the… …

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  • 40Trounson — Recorded in a range of spellings including Trounce, Trounson, Trownson, Trunchion and Trouncer, this is a medieval English surname, but one of early French origins. It derives from the word tronche, a word probably introduced at the time of the… …

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