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Thrashing

noun

1.

A sound defeat. Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping.

2.

The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows. Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking.

Thrash

verb

(past & past part. thrashed; pres. part. thrashing)

1.

Give a thrashing to; beat hard. Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh.

2.

Move or stir about violently. Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss.

3.

Dance the slam dance. Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance.

4.

Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all.

5.

Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation.

6.

Beat the seeds out of a grain. Synonym: thresh.

7.

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight. Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick.

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"Thrashing" Quotes from Famous Books

... a boy I used to stay at my grandfather's on Count Platov's estate, I had to sit from sunrise to sunset by the thrashing machine and write down the number of poods and pounds of corn that had been thrashed; the whistling, the hissing, and the bass note, like the sound of a whirling top, that the machine makes at full speed, ...

— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... has now been in use more than twelve months in traction and thrashing work, and, we are informed, with complete success. The illustrations represent a 7-horse power, with a cylinder 8 in. diameter by 12 in. stroke, and steam jacketed. The shafts and axles are of Bowling iron. The boiler contains 140 ft. of heating surface, and is made entirely of Bowling iron, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various

... other end. I do hope that you will not be tired of the apes. To me they are so intensely interesting that I cannot help writing about them. Eblis has been feverish for some days. I think he has never recovered from the thrashing he got the day I came. He is pining and growing very weak; he eats nothing but little bits of banana, and Mr. Low thinks he is sure to die. It is a curious fact that these apes, which are tamed by living with Europeans, acquire a great aversion ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... day I heard some very ugly stories about you—backed, too, by ocular evidence: the bystanders on that occasion are my witnesses how angry I was on your account; I was in two minds about giving the fellow a thrashing; and the annoying part of it was that he appealed to more than one witness who had had the same experience and told just the same tale. Let this be a warning to you to economize, so that you may be able to have your enjoyments at home in all security. ...

— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata

... wouldn't do to upset her. As for the governor, he'd be furious if he knew. He told me last term that if I ran into debt I needn't trust to him to get me out of it, for he wouldn't stir a finger to help me, and would give me a thrashing for my pains. He must not know on any account. It is of no use writing to Brian or the others, because it is so near the end of the term they're sure to have no money left. Have you spent all yours? I am going to get up before five o'clock to-morrow ...

— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil

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