The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BEATEN
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More clues leading to the result BEATEN
- British taken in and defeated
- Hit book polished off
- Fail to assemble as full team, perhaps, getting trounced
- Worried to enter flipping boozer in bad condition
- Stamped / like eggs can be?
- Unsuccessful target for dieter who’s a twelve?
- Well used book gets put away
- Defeated second-rate English/American team with a man down?
- Suffering from a bruising defeat?
- Bully initially scoffed getting thrashed
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The straight part
We know that "trounced" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case trounced = beaten.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BEATEN mean?
BEATEN verb- To hit; strike
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To rob.
- Defeated
- Repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows
- (of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement
- Trite; hackneyed