ether vs trounce

ether

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

noun
  • The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. 

  • Starting fluid. 

  • Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. 

  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. 

  • Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). 

trounce

verb
  • To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language. 

  • To pass across or over; to traverse. 

  • To travel quickly over a long distance. 

  • To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue. 

  • To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge. 

  • To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin. 

  • To beat severely; to thrash. 

noun
  • A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious. 

  • A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge. 

  • An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat. 

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