Words that rhyme with trounce

  • announce
    v 1: make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly" [syn: announce, denote] 2: announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war" [syn: announce, declare] 3: give the names of; "He announced the winners of the spelling bee" 4: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]
  • bounce
    n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: bounce, bounciness] 2: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce] 3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bounce, bouncing] v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet] 2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" 3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce] 4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant: clear] 5: leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet" 6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check" 7: eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
  • denounce
    v 1: speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis" 2: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark] 3: announce the termination of, as of treaties 4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
  • enounce
    v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say]
  • flounce
    n 1: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim [syn: frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow] 2: the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions v 1: walk emphatically
  • jounce
    n 1: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce]
  • mispronounce
    v 1: pronounce a word incorrectly; "She mispronounces many Latinate words" [syn: mispronounce, misspeak]
  • ounce
    n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound [syn: ounce, troy ounce, apothecaries' ounce] 2: a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams [syn: ounce, oz.] 3: large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur [syn: snow leopard, ounce, Panthera uncia]
  • pounce
    n 1: the act of pouncing v 1: move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" [syn: pounce, swoop]
  • pronounce
    v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 2: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: pronounce, label, judge]
  • renounce
    v 1: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" [syn: abdicate, renounce] 2: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up] 3: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish] 4: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce, repudiate]
  • counce
  • crounse
  • mounce
  • younce

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