The word 'trounce' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean beating someone or something soundly, or defeating them decisively. For example: I trounced my opponent in the game of chess.
Earlier in the day four different goalscorers had helped Napoli trounce Livorno 4-0 athehe Stadio San Paolo.
The only question going into the election was how badly Karimov would trounce his three toothless competitors from the country's other parliamentary parties, who have themselves praised the president as the best candidate.
And the last editor to be imprisoned used his trial as a magnificent platform to trounce his accusers, calling for changes that would, in effect, shift power from the unelected and unaccountable to the elected and accountable.The goal, say Iran's more dedicated reformers, has now moved beyond easing rules and regulations desirable though that still is towards institutional change.
In 1990, a university rector called Alberto Fujimori rose from nowhere in the final weeks of a presidential election campaign to trounce Mario Vargas Llosa, a world-famous novelist.
As long as petrol prices stay high, Mr Kerry looks likely to trounce the allegedly Toxic Texan on this issue.
A mixture of social-welfare schemes and Islamic piety helped AK to trounce the biggest pro-PKK party in many of its former strongholds at the general election last July.
And when the state of which it is capital, West Bengal, goes to the polls on May 10th, in the last stage of India's protracted national election, the parties of the Communist-dominated government seem sure to trounce the opposition.
According to the opinion polls, Mr Netanyahu will trounce Mr Barak, who only 19 months ago defeated him by a comfortable 12%.Under Israeli law, Mr Barak's resignation means new elections, within 60 days, for prime minister but not for the Knesset, which continues its term.
At first Mr Rollins, a reticent Mormon and teetotaller who plays the violin, looked disciplined compared with Carly Fiorina, the flamboyant boss of HP, Dell's main rival, and Dell continued to trounce HP in the market.
This newspaper did not want the Islamists to trounce the secular reformers, but they did.
But Lula is expected to trounce both challengers; he stands a good chance of outright victory, without any need for a run-off (see chart).Continuity sounds reassuring, and by the standards of some recent Latin American elections it is.
