What's the difference between murder and trounce?

Murder


Definition:

  • (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
  • (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
  • (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
  • (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
  • (4) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (6) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
  • (8) Black physicians should assume a lead role in these inquiries and in the prevention and treatment of violence, specifically black-on-black murder.
  • (9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
  • (10) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
  • (11) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
  • (12) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
  • (13) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
  • (14) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
  • (15) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
  • (16) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
  • (17) In the film Miller puts allegations of torture and murder to representatives of the Syrian government.
  • (18) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
  • (19) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
  • (20) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.

Trounce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By breaking ICM’s data into four different categories of seat, Curtice reveals Labour’s decline is sharpest in those supposedly heartland seats where it previously trounced the SNP by more than 25 points.
  • (2) True, he has trounced them so thoroughly that any mutterings of future challenges are an empty blast of sour breath.
  • (3) The NFC's top-ranked Seahawks trounced the Saints in Seattle just a few weeks ago.
  • (4) They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, eventually winning almost 42% of the vote.
  • (5) In reaction to Roma’s 5-1 trouncing of CSKA, Hart said: “Roma won 5-1?
  • (6) She trounced her Republican rivals on the promise that as a “mother, soldier, conservative” she would fight abortion right and strive to tame big government, putting the Affordable Care Act, the EPA, the Clean Water Act, minimum wage and the department of education, among other things, in her sights.
  • (7) Even at home, commercial rivals often trounce state offerings and there is widespread cynicism about news content.
  • (8) Defeating the holders, Manchester City, after that 6-1 trouncing by them in the league at Old Trafford is to be relished.
  • (9) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
  • (10) City’s trouncing of Villa aside, their league form since announcing Guardiola’s ETA and Manuel Pellegrini exit is similarly awful: one win, three defeats.
  • (11) Remember: in 2005, Labour under the supposedly wizard-like Tony Blair managed to get only 35% of the vote, and at the last election, the Tories could not even trounce Gordon Brown.
  • (12) guide found that budget gins – some selling at less than a tenner a bottle – trounced their more expensive and established rivals in a consumer taste test.
  • (13) The certainty of a large Conservative majority and knowing that the remainers have been trounced, will see Ukip voters coming home.
  • (14) Barcelona, after years of dishing out this kind of trouncing, were now being subjected to Bavarian "olés".
  • (15) Even to casual observers the message was clear: had the Know Nothings and Republicans joined forces, they would have trounced Buchanan.
  • (16) Yet the previously obscure one-term state senator trounced her fancied Democratic rival, Bruce Braley, in what was supposed to be a purple state.
  • (17) Maradona's Argentina are also out after Germany trounced the South Americans 4-0 yesterday afternoon.
  • (18) Hawthorn trounce Adelaide by 74 points to reach AFL preliminary final Read more Brad Scott’s team were harder at the contest and powered by Jack Ziebell, Shaun Higgins and Ben Cunnington.
  • (19) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
  • (20) The Louis van Gaal show is up and running and in the brightest of lights after a 7-0 trouncing of Los Angeles Galaxy in front of an 86,432 crowd at the Rose Bowl.