trounce

It was a big call, made to look rather foolish when the Irishwoman trounced Ally Ewing 4&3 as Europe mounted their unlikely and ultimately forlorn fightback.

It looks like a another long, hard season ahead for the Carolina Panthers based on their trouncing in New Orleans.

“It was a showdown at high noon, and he got trounced.”

Both candidates were trounced in November, and Michigan Democrats won control of all three branches of government for the first time in more than 30 years.

But “Radical Optimism” was still trounced by the third week of Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which holds at No. 1 with a wide margin.