What part of speech is trounces?

Trounces can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. trounces is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of trounce (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does trounces mean?

Definitions

Verb

trounce - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
trounce - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

Examples of trounces

#   Sentence  
1. verb She absolutely trounces me whenever we play Scrabble.
Sentence  
verb
She absolutely trounces me whenever we play Scrabble.

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