Trounce vs Lambaste - What's the difference?
trounce | lambaste |
As verbs the difference between trounce and lambaste is that trounce is to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily while lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
trounce English
Verb
( trounc)
to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily
- The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.
to punish
to beat severely; thrash
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lambaste English
Alternative forms
* lambast (UK)
Verb
( lambast)
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
- The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
- Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
* 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
- Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
(dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
Synonyms
* (to give a thrashing to) beat, hit, thrash
* (to scold or verbally reprimand) berate, scold, tell off
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