thrash

Plural: thrashes

Noun

• a swimming kick used while treading water
• A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• Ellipsis of thrash metal.

Verb

Verb Forms: thrashed, thrashing, thrashes

• To beat a person or animal repeatedly and violently.
• give a thrashing to; beat hard
• move or stir about violently
  • "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
• dance the slam dance
• beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
• move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
  • "The system is thrashing again!"
• beat the seeds out of a grain
• beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
• To beat mercilessly.
• To defeat utterly.
• To thresh.
• To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
• In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Examples

• He hoped to THRASH his Scrabble opponent with a flurry of high-scoring words.

Synonyms

bat, clobber, convulse, cream, drub, flail, jactitate, lam, lick, mosh, slam, slam dance, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss

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