Definition of thrash Thrash
/θɹæˈʃ/ - [thratsh] - thrash
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NounPlural: thrashes |
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| thrash - a swimming kick used while treading water | ||
| swimming kick a movement of the legs in swimming | ||
| treading water a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms | ||
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| thrash - beat the seeds out of a grain | ||
| thresh | ||
| beat come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | ||
| husbandry, farming, agriculture agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" | ||
| thrash - give a thrashing to; beat hard | ||
| thresh, lam, flail | ||
| work over, beat up, beat gather; "drum up support" | ||
| thrash - move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!" | ||
| swap move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | ||
| thrash - beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | ||
| thump, pound, beat hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" | ||
| thrash - move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" | ||
| convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate | ||
| agitate, shake change the arrangement or position of | ||
| whip strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped her face" | ||
| thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" | ||
| cream, bat, clobber, drub, lick | ||
| flail, lam, thresh, thrash move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" | ||
| vanquish, beat out, trounce, crush, shell, beat beat out a rhythm | ||
| thrash - dance the slam dance | ||
| slam dance, slam, mosh | ||
| trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio" | ||
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- thrash (Noun)
A beat or blow; the sound of beating. - thrash (Noun)
A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking. - thrash (Verb)
To beat mercilessly. - thrash (Verb)
To defeat utterly. - thrash (Verb)
To thresh. - thrash (Verb)
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. - thrash (Verb)
To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. - thrash (Verb)
In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory or paging system.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- thrash (v. t.)
Alt. of Thresh - thrash (v. t.)
Alt. of Thresh
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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thrash
To separate the grain from the straw or husks by beating.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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thrash
thrash, v.t. to heat out grain from the straw, to beat soundly—also Thresh.—ns. Thrash′er, Thresh′er; Thrash′ing, Thresh′ing, the act of beating out grain from the straw: a sound beating or drubbing; Thrash′ing-floor, Thresh′ing-floor, a floor on which grain is thrashed; Thrash′ing-machine′, -mill, a machine or apparatus for thrashing corn. [A.S. therscan; cog. with Ger. dreschen.] -
thrash
thrash, n. (Scot.) a rush.—Also Thresh
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