The difference between Murder and Trounce

When used as verbs, murder means to deliberately kill (a person or persons), whereas trounce means to win against (someone) by a wide margin.


Murder is also noun with the meaning: an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

check bellow for the other definitions of Murder and Trounce

  1. Murder as a noun (countable):

    An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

    Examples:

    "There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."

  2. Murder as a noun (uncountable):

    The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

    Examples:

    "The defendant was charged with murder."

  3. Murder as a noun (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule):

    The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

  4. Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):

    Something terrible to endure.

    Examples:

    "This headache is murder."

  5. Murder as a noun (countable, collective):

    A group of crows;

  1. Murder as a verb:

    To deliberately kill (a person or persons).

    Examples:

    "The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."

  2. Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To defeat decisively.

    Examples:

    "Our team is going to murder them."

  3. Murder as a verb:

    To botch or mangle.

  4. Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one's anger at somebody).

    Examples:

    "He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"

  5. Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):

    to devour, ravish.

    Examples:

    "I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."

  1. Trounce as a verb (transitive):

    to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily

    Examples:

    "The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1."

  2. Trounce as a verb (transitive):

    to punish

  3. Trounce as a verb (transitive):

    to beat severely; thrash