trounce

But how much could USC really take from trouncing a team that finished fourth last season ... in the Missouri Valley Conference?

After England trounced Spain at home last weekend, Dow is expecting a bracing evening in south-west France, one that will steel a near full-strength side for challenges to come.

Might Wales' final-round trouncing at the hands of England count against him in the final reckoning?

His Referendum Party was trounced in the 1997 general election but he had planted a seed.

As Shakespeare keenly understood, when the individual is allowed to trounce the collective, the result isn’t freedom but barbarism.