thrashing

Plural: thrashings

Noun

• a sound defeat
• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
• Action of the verb to thrash.
• A beating, especially a severe one.
• A heavy defeat.
• Excessive paging within virtual storage.
• Slam dancing.
• Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)

Verb

• give a thrashing to; beat hard
• move or stir about violently
• 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
• present participle and gerund of thrash

Examples

• the thrashings of a fish on a hook

Synonyms

bat, beating, clobber, convulse, cream, debacle, drub, drubbing, flail, jactitate, lacing, lam, lick, licking, mosh, slam, slam dance, slash, slaughter, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss, trouncing, walloping, whacking, whipping