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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



... seemed no better satisfied with Germany than he had been on first stepping ashore at Cuxhaven. He might still have been in a pout with his own country, but as yet he had not made up with any other; and he said, "What a pity Napoleon didn't thrash the whole dunderheaded lot! His empire would have been a blessing to them, and they would have had some chance of being civilized under the French. All this unification of nationalities is the ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... you would owe me an apology all the same, and he is a poor creature who will not pay his debts. But I hope it is not necessary I should either thrash or insult your lordship to convince you I fear you no ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald
... Admiral Drake thrash the sailors of Philip whenever he meets them? God surely only fights for the right!" replied ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan
... Porky climbed down to the ground. Then he tucked his head down between his front paws and suddenly the thousand little spears appeared all over him, pointing in every direction until he looked like a giant chestnut burr. Then he began to thrash his tail from side ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... black bean with a hole in it; of which, the said Becquet hearing that he was suspected, his wife came to witness's house while the said Becquet was at sea, and told her that on account of the rumour which witness had raised about her husband, he the said Becquet would thrash the said Messurier, her husband, and herself, and would kill them; after that, witness went to their house to say they were not afraid either of him or her, or of their threats to kill her husband and her; ...
— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts


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