Thrash

Definitions: Thrash

Thrash

Noun

1. A swimming kick used while treading water.

Verb

1. Give a thrashing to; beat hard.

2. Move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed".

3. Dance the 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; of overloaded paging systems; "The system is thrashing again!".

6. Beat the seeds out of a grain; in agriculture.

7. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thrash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Computing

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Thrash

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: Thrash

Do you want me to get inside the bathtub and thrash around? (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

I'm going to thrash you within an inch of your life -- and then I'm going to take that inch! (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

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Books

• David Cregan Three Plays: Whispers Along the Patio/Nice Dorothy/the Last Thrash (reference)

• Speed and Thrash Drum Method (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Thrash Metal Speed Special (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Black Thrash Attack (reference)

• New York Thrash [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Thrash Zone (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Skate or Die: Tour de Thrash (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Vigilant and Valkyrie in a "thrash to windward": in their international race for "The America's Cup" Oct. 7th, 9th. & 13th. 1893.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "thrash": thrash about ♦ thrash against smth. ♦ thrash around ♦ thrash its wings ♦ thrash out ♦ thrash over old straw. Additional references.

Beginning with "thrash": thrash-lobotomised.

Ending with "thrash": post-thrash, prog-thrash, speed-thrash.

Afrikaan

afros (curry). (various references)

Albanian

rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), goditje me këmbë, godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thwack, whack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏قلب الراي في مسألة, ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏شق طريقة ضد الريح, ‏درس الحنطة (thresh). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вършея (flail, thresh), натупвам (lick, shellac), нанасям побой на (assault, beat up, buffet), напердашвам (clobber, dress down, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, skin, whale), надвивам (drub, fight down, fight off, overbear, overpower, overwhelm, pip, vanquish, worst), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), побеждавам (beat, conquer, defeat, down, fight down, foil, have, lace, lick, master, mop up, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overthrow, overturn, pip, polish off, prevail, scupper, triumph, trounce, vanquish, whip, whop, win, worst, zap), пердаша (baste, drub, leather, pelt, tan, towel). (various references)

Chinese 

鞭打 (flog, lash, whip), 捶打 (Thrashed, thrashing). (various references)

Czech

ztlouci, zpráskat, zbít (beat up, lick, trounce, wallop), porazit na hlavu (hammer smth. into shape), nařezat komu, mlátit (bash, hammer away, thresh). (various references)

Dutch

afranselen (beat, beat up, clatter, flog, thresh, whack). (various references)

Esperanto

bategi, bastonadi (beat, beat up, flog, whack). (various references)

Farsi 

کوزل کوبی , کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Hammer, Knock, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Stub, Thresh), کتک زدن (Beat, Bludgeon, Clobber, Drub, Mug, Smack), ازپوست دراوردن (Thresh). (various references)

Finnish

suomia (criticize, whip), kurittaa (chastise, discipline, whip). (various references)

French

rouer des coups, rosser (thresh), rossée (thrashing), fustiger, donner une bonne correction, débattre, battre (thresh, throb, wipe the floor with), battage (thrashings, thresh, threshing). (various references)

Frisian

omseamje, ôftichelje, ôfrosse (curry). (various references)

German

verprügeln (bash, baste, batter, batter about, beat up, bludgeon, knock about, knock around, lambaste, pelt, slog, strap, thwack, to baste, to lambaste, to slog, to trounce, trounce, wallop). (various references)

Greek 

κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clobber, clout, cudgel, hit, impinge, knock, larrup, maul, rap, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat), κοπανίζω (maul, pound, thwack), βαρώ (beat, hit), ξυλίζω (drub), χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thump), αλωνίζω (thresh). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, mill, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, swipe, thrust down, thump, thwack), להביס (beat, checkmate, defeat, floor, skunk), לדוש (crush, flail, mill, pound, thresh). (various references)

Hungarian

verés (beat, beating, dressing down, hiding, lick, licking, pulsation, spanking, strafe, swipe, thrashing, throb, whipping), rázás (jig, jog, jolt, jumping, shake, shaking, stroke), elcsépelt dolog, csavarás okozta rezgés, csapkodás (beating, chop, flap, flounce, spatter, thrashing), csépelés. (various references)

Indonesian

mendera (lash, welt, whack), memukuli (beat, dash, drub, trounce), banat (whip). (various references)

Italian

percuotere (beat, belt, cuff, hit, knock, maul, strike, thwack, trounce, wallop), muoversi (bestir oneself, budge, flap, get a move on, go, move, shift, stir), battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win), bastonare (beat, beat up, belabor, belabour, cane, club, drub, Lam). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

打擲 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちょうちゃく. (various references)

Manx

cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, belabour, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thresh, throb, toll, wallop). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashthray

Portuguese

zurzir (trounce, welt), sovar (larva, thresh, wallop, whop), malhar (beetle, hammer, hit, maul, strike, thresh), derrotar (beat, checkmate, cob, defeat, discomfit, foil, get up the better, hammer, kill, outmatch, overcome, overpower, pill, pip, scatter, vanquish, whop, worst), castigar (amerce, beat, birch, castigate, chasten, cob, discipline, flog, inflict, penance, pull about, punish, smite, swinge, visit, whack, whip), bater (bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, biff, Bob, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, doddered, flap, fling, flog, forged, form, froth, hit, hunt down, jab, knead, knock, Lama, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, scutch, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thresh, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst), açoitar (flapdoodle, flog, horsewoman, lash, leather boots, quirt, swinge, swish, trounce, whip). (various references)

Romanian

trage o mamã în bãtãi, stropşi (beat, corrupt, curse), ciomãgi (baste, club, cudgel, drub, fustigate, sandbag, whop), chelfãni (spank), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, defeat, discomfit, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst). (various references)

Russian 

крутильные колебания, бухнуть (plunk), бухать (blooze), бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop), победить в борьбе. (various references)

Scottish

slachd, sguids (switch), buail (smite, strike). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mlatiti (flail, larrup), lemati, izudarati (beat up, thwack, trounce), izbiti (beat, break out, burst in, burst out, erupt, lambaste, strike, trounce), istući (beat, belabour, drub, wallop, whop, work over). (various references)

Spanish

zurrar (leather, to snarl, trounce, warm, welt), aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, cudgel, knock about, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thump, thwack, whack), pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, hit, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, tie on, touch, trounce, welt), azotar (batter, birch, blow, cane, flail, flog, lash, lick, paddle, scourge, trounce, whip). (various references)

Swedish

tröska (combine, thresh), klå (cudgel, flog, itch, larrup, lick, scratch, skin, sting, trounce). (various references)

Thai

แกว่งไปแกว่งมา (oscillate about / around), เฆี่ยน (flog, lash), นวดข้าว, ทำให้แพ้อย่างสิ้นเชิง, การเฆี่ยน (lash, lashing), ตีขาในน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), kıvranmak (agonize, be convulsed, be pinched, squirm, suffer, thrash about, twist, wriggle, writhe), harman dövmek (thresh), denize karşı seyretmek, dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, trounce, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop). (various references)

Ukranian 

стукати (beat, chatter, clatter, dab, knock, rap, thresh, thunder, wap), удар ногами (thresh), шмагати (bull-dose, castigate, flick, flog, thresh, thwack, whip), молотити (cob, flail, spelt, thresh), побити (clobber, overbear, punish, thresh, work over). (various references)

adtondebitis, adtondent, adtondentur, adtonsi, cassare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thrash": thrashed, thrasher, thrashers, thrashes, thrashing, thrashings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thrash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: theash, thra, thrasa, thraso, threth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: harsh, harts, tahrs, trash.

-2 letters: arts, hahs, hart, hash, hast, hath, hats, rash, rath, rats, shah, shat, star, tahr, tars, tsar.

-3 letters: ars, art, ash, hah, has, hat, rah, ras, rat, sat, sha, shh, tar, tas.

-4 letters: ah, ar, as, at, ha, sh, ta.

+1 letter: hearths.

+2 letters: hardhats, harshest, hatchers, heathers, kashruth, sheather, thrashed, thrasher, thrashes.

+3 letters: arhatship, ethnarchs, haftarahs, haftorahs, haphtaras, hartshorn, hawthorns, heptarchs, hydranths, kashruths, parashoth, sheathers, shorthair, shorthand, thatchers, thrashers, thrashing.

+4 letters: arhatships, authorship, crosshatch, earthshine, haircloths, hartshorns, hatcheries, heartaches, midrashoth, parashioth, shorthairs, shorthands, thearchies, thrashings.

+5 letters: arrhythmias, athwartship, authorships, bathysphere, catchphrase, crashworthy, diphtherias, dysrhythmia, earthlights, earthshaker, earthshines, fatherhoods, headhunters, hearthstone, heartthrobs, hectographs, heptachlors, heptarchies, hierophants, housefather, ichthyosaur, lithographs, nightmarish, photographs, searchlight, shortchange, shorthaired, shorthanded, straightish, throughways, waterthrush, whitewasher.

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