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Thrash   /θræʃ/   Listen
Thrash

noun
1.
A swimming kick used while treading water.
verb
(past & past part. thrashed; pres. part. thrashing)
1.
Give a thrashing to; beat hard.  Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh.
2.
Move or stir about violently.  Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss.
3.
Dance the slam dance.  Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance.
4.
Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all.
5.
Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation.
6.
Beat the seeds out of a grain.  Synonym: thresh.
7.
Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.  Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick.



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"Thrash" Quotes from Famous Books



... established himself as a dictator. He's a troublemaker. I've been talking to the Commonwealth Council about the advisability of quashing him before he causes grief, but you know the Council ... first wait until the flames have sprung up, then thrash about and demand that the ...
— The Dueling Machine • Benjamin William Bova
... "what you said was an infernal lie, and if you don't retract it this moment, I'll thrash you within an inch ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... to thrash him," said Alan. "He is planning to get the whole of this gold, as he thinks ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... did 'tis not the first time I ha thrash'd. If I find my Souldiers tractable they shall find me ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various
... everybody, doubtless, thought we were the cause. On inquiring how he came to get such a tremendous thrashing, it turned out that these Basutus have a custom of sending young men of a certain age[] out in couples, each armed with a good "sjambok" (a whip cut from the hide of a sea-cow), to thrash one another till one gives in, and that it was in one of these encounters that the intelligent Scowl got so lacerated; but, as he remarked with a grin, "My back is nothing, the chiefs should see that ...
— Cetywayo and his White Neighbours - Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal • H. Rider Haggard


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