Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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trounce

/tɹaʊns/ verb, noun

Forms trounces trouncing trounced

  1. verb (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
  2. verb (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin. “The German team trounced the Brazilians by 7 goals to 1.”
  3. verb (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
  4. verb (transitive, UK, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
  5. noun An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
  6. verb (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
  7. verb (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
  8. verb (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
  9. noun A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
  10. noun A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.

Synonyms

thump rout beat bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast eat someone's lunch flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox outguess outrun outsmart outwit overcome overpower welt whip lather lash slash strap beat out crush shell vanquish

Etymology

The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning.
The noun is derived from the verb.

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trance with the same senses), possibly either:
* from Middle English trauncen, transen (“to pass from life to death, die”), from Old French transir (“to cut through, pass through”), from Latin trānsīre, present active infinitive of trānseō (“to cross, traverse; to go over (to a side or faction); to pass over; to exceed, surpass; of time: to elapse, pass; (figuratively) to cease, pass away”), from trāns (“across; beyond”) + eō (“to go”); or
* a blend of Middle English tramplen (“to tread on, trample”) + dauncen (“to dance”) or prauncen (“to prance”).
The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

Etymology [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trounce”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details