Competition
Synonyms for trounce
The synonym for trounce recorded in this bank is drub, in the sense "to defeat someone decisively and by a wide margin". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for trounce
- drubverb, in the sense "to defeat someone decisively and by a wide margin"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day trounce is audited in a second meaning.
to defeat someone decisively and by a wide margin
The visiting side is expected to trounce the home team by five goals in the final.
The true synonym
drub
Same sentence, swapped: The visiting side is expected to drub the home team by five goals in the final.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot trounce is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- taunt
- provoke
- outnumber
Where trounce turns up in the game
trounce is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play trounce
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trounce reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other competition words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. trounce carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.