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Thrashing   /θrˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
Thrashing

noun
1.
A sound defeat.  Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping.
2.
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.  Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking.


Thrash

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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"Thrashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Leisure, certainly, but the means are slender enough, and proceeding in a diminishing ratio. That's the penalty of having been born a rich man's son and educated chiefly in the arts of riding off at polo and thrashing a single-sticker to windward in a Cape Cod squall. But I sha'n't say a word against the governor, God bless him! He gave me what I thought I wanted, and it wasn't his fault that an insignificant blood-clot should beat him out on that day of days—the corner in "R. P." It was never the Chicago ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... lucubrations of that fellow to the clear grasp of my intellect?" he thought. "Is not this my country? Have I not got forty million brothers?" he asked himself, unanswerably victorious in the silence of his breast. And the fearful thrashing he had given the inanimate Ziemianitch seemed to him a sign of intimate union, a pathetically severe necessity of brotherly love. "No! If I must suffer let me at least suffer for my convictions, not for a crime my ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... pardon," Tom said gravely; "I did not know that the 15th were famous for thrashing boys. Thank you; when I enlist it shall be in a regiment where men ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... naturally to a thrashing, as others do the small-pox. In a few minutes I perceived him emerge from the ditch and walk—though rather stiffly—across the field. "Thank Heaven," I said, "if I have been a dupe ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included. BOOK II. ( Octavo), CHAPTER V. ( Thrasher). —This gentleman is famous for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He mounts the Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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