Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To beat with or as if with a flail, especially as a punishment. See Synonyms at beat.
- v. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail: The alligator thrashed its tail.
- v. To defeat utterly; vanquish.
- v. To thresh.
- v. To sail (a boat) against opposing winds or tides.
- v. To move wildly or violently: thrashed about all night.
- v. To strike or flail.
- v. To thresh.
- v. To sail against opposing tides or winds.
- n. The act or an instance of thrashing.
- n. Music See speed metal.
- thrash out To discuss fully.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See thresh.
- n. A rush.
Wiktionary
- v. To beat mercilessly.
- v. To defeat utterly.
- v. To thresh.
- v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail.
- v. software To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- v. computing In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- n. music A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain.
- v. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
- v. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw.
- v. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
WordNet 3.0
- v. beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
- v. move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- v. dance the slam dance
- v. give a thrashing to; beat hard
- v. move or stir about violently
- v. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- n. a swimming kick used while treading water
- v. beat the seeds out of a grain
Etymologies
- Proto-Germanic *þreskanan, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja (Wiktionary)
- Variant of thresh. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“So, did those of us who are truly familiar with Rogers 'work really expect him to "thrash" Nagin?”
“I personally found the debate disappointing - I believe when time is limited you need to zero in on one or two core issues and then 'thrash' it backwards and forwards, with some approach to achieving substantial clarity on the subject in question.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“When I come back we'll kind of thrash things out and see what's to be done.”
“All he asked was that his grandson should "thrash" somebody, and he could not be made to understand that the modern drama of divorce is sometimes cast without a Lovelace.”
“They say that expression is a need of the human heart; and I am also convinced that in many hearts there is a very strong desire at times to "thrash" some one.”
“He became very angry with the President, said that that officer had a cowardly fear of Spain and Great Britain, and declared that he would go to Washington to "thrash" the President.”
“He was obliged to declare on the playground the next day, that he would "thrash" any boy that said anything about milkmaids.”
“The patches, programmed in Kontakt format (version 2+ required), allow for tone and envelope control as well as timing variation, easy 'thrash' mode, and true, stereo double-tracked output.”
“• Gold and Sullivan hope West Ham 'thrash' Blues this evening”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrash’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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bad memory
copper, anvil, oblique, thrust, shrine, welfare, farewell, bitter, faction, sectarian, tangible, spectacle and 134 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
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I am : violent
Destructive verbs that speed up entropy. (Still working on definition of what I want; may add adjectives later.)
destroy, wreck, thrash, trash, beat up, annihilate, exterminate, disembowel, eviscerate, disintegrate, explode, bomb and 41 more...
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Phonestheme: -ASH, the Action Movie
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crash, smash, dash, bash, brash, trash, rash, lash, thrash, cash, clash, flash and 7 more...
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Intrigued by these words...
sphincter, blush, flume, shingle, spurt, pulp, precious, squeal, zest, zeal, cherish, fervor and 35 more...
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Words that hurt
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jab, headbutt, headlock, choke, elbow, grab, kick, slap, roundhouse, spinning backfist, stomp, uppercut and 40 more...
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swim strokes and accompanying parts
tranation, crawl, trudgen, freestyle, sidestroke, frog kick, butterfly, australian crawl, dog paddle, breaststroke, " ' " ' " ' ", scissor kick and 12 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
mortgage, fiddling, rage, kick, stroke, dodge, hunch, scratch, covetous, rank, trickle, budget and 179 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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brtom "Give him ginger. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. The cat-o' nine-tails. Geld him. Vivisect him."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Feb 8, 2007