The word 'trounced' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to defeat someone or something decisively and with great force. It can also be used to mean to severely scold or criticize someone. Example: The home team trounced their opponents in a stunning victory, scoring five goals in the first half. In my performance review, my boss trounced me for consistently being late to meetings.
The BBC1 airing trounced rivals on the other channels such as Channel 4's The Island with Bear Grylls, which scored 2.4 million viewers and ITV maternity ward comedy The Delivery Man, which averaged 1.2 million.
On Thursday the outgoing Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, comprehensively trounced in the election, attended a European commission conference in Brussels where he enjoyed a standing ovation almost as if he had been the victor.
Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader, won with 61% of the presidential vote, with the Zanu-PF party gaining more than a two-thirds majority in parliament, and he trounced MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who gained 34% of votes.
They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, by just under 8,000 votes, a huge increase on her 1,252 majority of five years ago.
Despite predictions that Peter Mandelson beating him into print would damage sales of Tony Blair's autobiography, the former prime minister's book has trounced his erstwhile spin doctor's to become one of the fastest-selling memoirs ever – presumably pretty solid consolation for having had his publication party at Tate Modern cancelled.
They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, eventually winning almost 42% of the vote.
'Ultimately, we need to balance the various elements in a way which works, in a way which creates clear accountability between those who govern and those who are governed, which protects rights and respect for the law.' It is hard work trying to make yourself heard when you have been so comprehensively trounced after so long in office.
As he knocks on doors on a sprawling estate in south London, Simon Hughes puts a brave face on a battle that could end a parliamentary career that began more than three decades ago when he trounced Peter Tatchell, the gay activist, in a notoriously dirty election.
Their candidate for governor, Phil Bryant, trounced Democrat Johnny DuPree (although voters spurned a proposal backed by both men, to confer "personhood" on the unborn).
But he was trounced in a Senate race last year by Rand Paul, viewed as extreme even by many Republicans.Democrats in those three fringe states tend to succeed by distancing themselves from the national party.
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