THRASH

thrash

(noun) a swimming kick used while treading water

cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick

(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”

thrash, thresh, lam, flail

(verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard

thrash, thresh

(verb) beat the seeds out of a grain

convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate

(verb) move or stir about violently; “The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

To beat mercilessly.

To defeat utterly.

To thresh.

To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

(computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)

(countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

(music, uncountable) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

Synonyms

• (music): thrash metal

Anagrams

• Harths, harths

Proper noun

Thrash (plural Thrashes)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Thrash is the 7117th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4701 individuals. Thrash is most common among White (69.75%) and Black/African American (24.25%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Harths, harths

Source: Wiktionary


Thrash, Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] Etym: [OE. , , to beat, AS. , ; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]

1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash, Thresh, v. t.

1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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