Thrash

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To move wildly or violently: thrashed about all night.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike or flail.
  • verb-intransitive. To thresh.
  • verb-intransitive. To sail against opposing tides or winds.
  • n. The act or an instance of thrashing.
  • n. Music See speed metal.
  • phrasal-verb. thrash out To discuss fully.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To beat mercilessly.
  • v. To defeat utterly.
  • v. To thresh.
  • v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail.
  • v. To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  • v. In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  • n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • n. A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See thresh.
  • n. A rush.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    thresh   
    Verb Form
    thrashed    thrashes    thrashing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    defeat   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drub    toil    thrash metal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Asch    Ash    Ashe    Bash    Cash    Flash    Nash    Tash    abash    ash   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thresh    writhe    scaly    rustle    sinuous    shriek