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See more synonyms for thrash on Thesaurus.com to beat soundly in punishment; flog. to defeat thoroughly: The home team thrashed the visitors. Nautical to force (a close-hauled sailing ship under heavy canvas) against a strong wind or sea. thresh .Show More
verb (used without object) to toss, or plunge about. Nautical to make way against the wind, tide, etc.; beat. thresh(defs 3, 4) .Show More
an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow. thresh(def 5) . Swimming the upward and downward movement of the legs, as in the crawl. British Slang a party, usually with drinks. Show More
thrash out /over , to talk over thoroughly and vigorously in order to reach a decision, conclusion, or understanding; discuss exhaustively. Also thresh out /over. Show More
Origin of thrash before 900; Middle English thrasshen, variant of
thresshen to
thresh Related forms un·thrashed , adjective well-thrashed , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for thrashed pummel ,
overwhelm ,
rout ,
trounce ,
spank ,
crush ,
clobber ,
defeat ,
paste ,
maul ,
whip ,
trim ,
pound ,
toss ,
wallop ,
belabor ,
seesaw ,
cane ,
kill ,
pitch Examples from the Web for thrashed Contemporary Examples of thrashed I lay there and thrashed about and all I could hear was my father and ‘ha, ha, ha’.
I lay there and thrashed about and all I could hear was my father and 'ha, ha, ha'.
“We got thrashed ,” Obama recalled, adding that he thought this time it would be better to just watch a sports event.
When Saddam Hussein tried to challenge us from within, we thrashed him in the Gulf War.
But, she dog-paddled furiously, thrashed about, made a lot of waves, and managed not to drown.
Historical Examples of thrashed The challenges before us will be thrashed out with the House and the Senate.
The driver had been drinking and in his drunkenness he had thrashed the poor beast.
He learned nothing by experience: he never knew when he was thrashed .
I thrashed him while he cried for help, and then yelled with pain and whined for mercy.
And then, seizing him by the white stock at his throat, I thrashed him.
British Dictionary definitions for thrashed (tr) to beat soundly, as with a whip or stick (tr) to defeat totally; overwhelm (intr) to beat or plunge about in a wild manner (intr) to move the legs up and down in the water, as in certain swimming strokes to sail (a boat) against the wind or tide or (of a boat) to sail in this way another word for thresh Show More
the act of thrashing; blow; beating informal a party or similar social gathering Show More
Word Origin for thrash Old English threscan; related to Old High German dreskan, Old Norse thriskja
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Word Origin and History for thrashed v. 1580s, "to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating," dialectal variant of threshen (see thresh ). Sense of "beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail" is first recorded c.1600. Meaning "to make wild movements like those of a flail or whip" is attested from 1846. Related: Thrashed ; thrashing . Type of fast heavy metal music first called by this name 1982.
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