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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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