What's the difference between trounce and wallop?

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.

Wallop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
  • (n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
  • (v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
  • (v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
  • (v. i.) To be slatternly.
  • (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
  • (v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
  • (v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
  • (n.) A thick piece of fat.
  • (n.) A blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.
  • (2) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
  • (3) Westminster is rarely a palace of pleasure, but Thursday brought the magnificent spectacle of Margaret Hodge walloping the big four accountancy firms for their role in helping companies deprive the Treasury of taxes everyone else has to pay.
  • (4) His family attended the Cygnus launch from Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility.
  • (5) Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
  • (6) It appears the Berkshires there in western Massachusetts got walloped.
  • (7) He takes it down on his chest and wallops it past the distressed and totally stranded Souleymanou.
  • (8) And New Jersey got walloped by Hurricane Sandy, and instead of acting on climate, Governor Christie has doubled down by sticking his head in the sand.” The political logic of Christie’s hedging on vaccinations was not immediately clear.
  • (9) It left the Swans without their two main forward targets, but in the end it was their midfield that was on the receiving end of the biggest walloping in the 15.13 (103) to 7.9 (51) defeat.
  • (10) Two minutes later, Tadic provided another assist, wriggling into the box and feeding Victor Wanyama, who walloped in his side’s seventh goal.
  • (11) Giroud grabbed the ball and walloped it up into the stands in relief.
  • (12) Only a Conservative leader confident of a walloping great majority would dare challenge the privileges of the largely Conservative-voting old.
  • (13) City have been imperious at home this season, walloping much better sides than the Hammers, and Manchester United, and have scored 61 goals in 18 league matches at the Etihad.
  • (14) There’s not enough difference between Ed Miliband and David Cameron,” Sturgeon announced to cheers, seizing the absent prime minster and walloping Miliband around the head with his pinstriped legs.
  • (15) Rushing on to a long kick by Randolph, he left defenders in his wake before walloping the ball past Manuel Neuer and into the net.
  • (16) Or the 1987 final, when they came within 13 minutes of the trophy before being walloped by a quick one-two?
  • (17) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
  • (18) 47 min: Asatiani plays a suicidal ball across the face of his own box; McFadden nearly latches onto it but Youngkeeper (it's easier to spell) does brilliantly to react, rushing out and walloping miles upfield.
  • (19) Ss either inside or outside of 2 houses in Wallops Station, Virginia, indicated on diagrams the direction of flyovers.
  • (20) Also: (5) Arsenal have been thrashed in their two other big matches at the Emirates this season, a 3-0 pasting by Chelsea and a 3-1 walloping by Manchester United, (6) Barcelona are better than Chelsea, (7) Barcelona are better than Manchester United, and (8) Henry might not get a sniff of action this evening anyway, rendering those four spurious omens totally worthless.