Thrashing

Definitions: Thrashing

Thrashing

Adjective

1. (especially of limbs or tail) waving or swinging about vigorously; "trying to drive insects away with his flailing arms"; "the aligator's thrashing tail".

Noun

1. A sound defeat.

2. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.

Date "thrashing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Thrashing thrash. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Synonyms: Thrashing

Synonyms: flailing (adj), beating (n), debacle (n), drubbing (n), lacing (n), slaughter (n), trouncing (n), walloping (n), whacking (n), whipping (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thrashing

English words defined with "thrashing": beat ♦ Cornfloor ♦ flail, flailing, flap ♦ lam ♦ Swingel, Swiple ♦ thrash, Thrashing machine, thresh, treading water. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thrashing": deliberate thrashing ♦ intentional thrashing ♦ network meltdown ♦ thundering herd problem. (references)

Etymologies containing "thrashing": tribulation, Trituration. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing!! (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth)
Lyrics	And my mind is crushed by the thrashing waves (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay)
Song Titles	Angel Visit (performing artist: Thrashing Doves)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bride Thrashing Through History (reference) Dharma Book: Thrashing Dragons (reference) Steam Thrashing in the Cotswolds (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Thrashing Holocaust (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The fifth in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds. This image clearly shows the fish thrashing in the net just prior to be moved.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
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"Thrashing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.05% of the time. "Thrashing" is used about 167 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	73.05%	122	29,069
Noun (singular)	18.56%	31	62,296
Adjective (general or positive)	7.78%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	0.6%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	167	N/A

Expressions using "thrashing": deliberate thrashing ♦ give a thrashing ♦ give smb. a good thrashing ♦ give smb. a thrashing ♦ good thrashing ♦ intentional thrashing ♦ Thrashing floor ♦ thrashing machine. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thrashing": thrashing-drum, thrashing-floor, thrashing-ground.
	Ending with "thrashing": wife-thrashing.
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Language		Translations for "thrashing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpartallim (debacle, rout), dru (drubbing, kindling, timber, tree, walloping, wood), dajak (club, cudgel, drubbing, rocket, rod, walloping, whopping). (various references)

Arabic		‏هزيمة (beating, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, trimming, wall), ‏ضرب شديد, ‏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, thrash, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جلد عنيف. (various references)

Bulgarian		вършитба (threshing), бой (action, battle, doing, drubbing, fight, hiding, lashing, leathering, licking, lump, punishment, rough and tumble, rough up, towelling, trimming, turnup, tussle, walloping, warming, whaling), побой (battery, beating), пердах (dressing down, drubbing, hammering, hiding, leathering, licking, lump, paddywhack, punishment, strap-oil, toko, towelling, walloping, whacking). (various references)

Chinese		捶打 (thrash, Thrashed). (various references)

Czech		výprask (beating, going-over, hiding, leathering, licking, threshing, whipping), nakládaèka (going-over, hammering), nářez (whacking, whipping), mlácení (drubbing). (various references)

Danish		taerskning (hulling, threshing), taerske (threshing). (various references)

Dutch		dorsen (thresh). (various references)

Finnish		puinti (ancient action of treading out corn, threshing), puiminen (threshing). (various references)

French		rossée (thrash), raclée, fustigation, dérouillée, défaite, battage (thrash, thrashings, thresh, threshing). (various references)

German		prügelnd (cudgeling), Flattern (be chucked, be flung, be in a flap, dance, flacker, flap, flat its wings, flicker, flutter, fly, jitter, quiver, shimmy, stream, to flacker, to flutter, to jitter, to shimmy, to stream, toss, wave, waver, wobble), Dreschen (bandy, bash, flail, slam, slog, slosh, thrash, thrashings, thresh, threshing, wallop). (various references)

Greek		αλώνισμα (threshing). (various references)

Hebrew		תבוסה (beating, checkmate, collapse, defeat, downfall, drubbing, licking, overthrow, rout, setback), חבטה (bang, beating, flap, pound, striking, swat, thwack), הלקאה (beating, flagellation, flogging, striking, stripe, whipping). (various references)

Hungarian		verés (beat, beating, dressing down, hiding, lick, licking, pulsation, spanking, strafe, swipe, thrash, throb, whipping). (various references)

Italian		trebbiatura (threshing), battitura (beating, breaking, driving, hammering, hulling, scutching, stippling, threshing). (various references)

Manx		tasterys (hammering, threshing). (various references)

Pig Latin		ashingthray

Portuguese		debulha (threshing). (various references)

Romanian		treierat (thrashings, threshing), cotonogealã (cudgeling), ciomãgealã (drubbing, fustigation, lick), calcavurã (jacketing, knee strap), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming). (various references)

Russian		обмолот, молотьба (milling, threshing), порка (beating, corporal punishment, flagellation, flogging, hiding, horsing, lashing, leathering, licking, oil of birch, the lash, toco, towelling, unstitching, whopping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mlaćenje. (various references)

Spanish		paliza (bashing, basting, beating, beating up, drubbing, flogging, hammering, hiding, leathering, licking, pasting, plastering, punishment, slap, smacking, walloping, whack). (various references)

Swedish		tröskning (threshing), stryk (beating, gruel, gruelling, jacketing, licking, pasting, punishment, walloping), smörj (beating, drubbing, jacketing, licking, whacking), bastonad (bastinado). (various references)

Turkish		yenilgi (bankruptcy, beating, checkmate, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, reverse, trimming), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping). (various references)

Ukranian		шмагання (castigation, chastisement, flogging, lashing, leathering, smacking, tanning, threshing, towelling, warming, whipping), молотьба (threshing). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đánh đập (buffeting, dressing, hiding, lashing, whacking, whipping). (various references)

Welsh		cosfa (itch, itching). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	verbera. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thrashing": thrashings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thrashing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thrahing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thrashing" (pronounced thra"shing)
5	-r a" sh i ng	crashing, trashing.
4	-a" sh i ng	bashing, cashing, clashing, dashing, flashing, gnashing, hashing, lashing, rehashing, slashing, smashing, splashing, stashing.
3	-sh i ng	abolishing, accomplishing, admonishing, ambushing, anguishing, astonishing, banishing, blushing, brainwashing, brandishing, brushing, crushing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flourishing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gushing, languishing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, rushing, skirmishing, sloshing, squashing, tarnishing, unleashing, vanishing, washing, wishing.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-h-i-n-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: trashing.
	-2 letters: garnish, gastrin, gratins, hashing, hasting, ratings, shantih, sharing, staring, tarnish.
	-3 letters: airths, aright, arshin, ashing, gainst, garish, garths, giants, girths, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, griths, haring, hating, hights, instar, nights, rasing, rating, rights, santir, sating, shairn, shanti, strain, strang, string, taring, thighs, things, thrash, trains.
	-4 letters: agist, airns, airth, airts, angst, antis.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-h-h-i-n-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: thrashings.
	+2 letters: nightmarish.
	+3 letters: earthshaking.
	+4 letters: crosshatching, ethnographies, nightmarishly, sharpshooting, shortchanging.
	+5 letters: earthshakingly, sharpshootings.
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