thrash
[thrash]
- 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.
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- to toss, or plunge about.
- Nautical. to make way against the wind, tide, etc.; beat.
- thresh(defs 3, 4).
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- 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.
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- thrash out/over, to talk over thoroughly and vigorously in order to reach a decision, conclusion, or understanding; discuss exhaustively.Also thresh out/over.
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Origin of thrash
Synonyms
See more synonyms for thrash on Thesaurus.com1. maul, drub.
Synonym study
1. See beat.
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Examples from the Web for thrashed
Contemporary Examples
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.
President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron Share a Symbolic Make-Nice MomentEleanor Clift
March 14, 2012
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
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.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
He learned nothing by experience: he never knew when he was thrashed.
A Boy I Knew and Four DogsLaurence Hutton
I thrashed him while he cried for help, and then yelled with pain and whined for mercy.
The Woman Thou Gavest MeHall Caine
And then, seizing him by the white stock at his throat, I thrashed him.
The Woman Thou Gavest MeHall Caine
thrash
- (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
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- the act of thrashing; blow; beating
- informal a party or similar social gathering
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See also thrash out
Word Origin
Old English threscan; related to Old High German dreskan, Old Norse thriskja
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Word Origin and History for thrashed
thrash
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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