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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thrash
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ Raving and thrashing about, the victim becomes gradually weaker and, if lucky, may eventually become unconscious.
▪ More screams and grimaces and thrashing about, and then pure vertigo.
▪ He's a restless sleeper, kicking and thrashing about throughout the night.
▪ None the less to ward them off, lanterns are hung near the surface where the sharks thrash about.
▪ Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor, gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth.
▪ Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough.
▪ As for Hague's speech, this is all desperate thrashing about by a failed leader of a failed party.
▪ Sobbing and screaming, she thrashed about like a woman possessed.
around
▪ Suddenly she sat up and started thrashing around.
▪ I struggle with them, thrashing around, and wake up to the alarm.
▪ They thrashed around, kicked and screamed and begged me to help ... but I couldn't move.
▪ She fell backward and off the chair and thrashed around holding her throat.
▪ Often he seemed desperate, violent, as if thrashing around inside himself for certainties that weren't there.
▪ He goes to bed late, thrashes around, snores and yanks the duvet over to his side.
▪ There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.
▪ The snake is still finding enough strength to thrash around as much as a flying snake might dare.
out
▪ The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne.
▪ Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
▪ He tried to touch her again and this time she thrashed out wildly.
▪ Sometimes they are quiet and bitter, and some-times they bellow like wounded animals, thrashing out at a hostile universe.
▪ The details of a huge trade treaty are being thrashed out with Cairo.
▪ Commissioners will thrash out how much phone companies can charge their competitors for using their lines in various ways.
▪ That is the best forum for that to be thrashed out and, I hope, in the end resolved.
▪ Whether and how such efforts involve Boalt administration could now be thrashed out in court.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat/thrash etc sb to within an inch of their life
soundly defeated/beaten/thrashed
▪ In Hayward, a proposed library improvement tax was soundly defeated.
▪ Synthonia are now the only side without a win after they were soundly beaten at Blackhall.
▪ The Republicans were soundly defeated in the South, even in places where there were voting black majorities.
▪ They were led by a fanatical chieftain named Yusuf and Alfonso was soundly defeated at the battle of Sagrajas.
▪ When it came up for a vote in March, it was soundly defeated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Gators soundly thrashed San Jose State.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the fish thrashed and broke free.
▪ Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
▪ He's a restless sleeper, kicking and thrashing about throughout the night.
▪ He was thrashing from side to side.
▪ Like a fish in a net, the more he thrashes, the more he is doomed.
▪ The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne.
▪ We tied balloons and streamers to the tents, wheelbarrow and Land Rover and watched them being thrashed by the wind.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels's thrash.
▪ Anne heard the tinny thrash of muted music.
▪ Conversation was limited by the roar of the engine and the thrash of the bow waves.
▪ Just withering thrash grooves that shoot past in a punch-drunk blur, leaving their peers way behind.
▪ Rebel against the party line and the usually dreary office thrash will become a real glam ball.
▪ There's a bloody thrash metal band, actually.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrash

Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \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 M[ae]vius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
    --Dryden.

Thrash

Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska, Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thrash

1580s, "to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating," dialectal variant of threshen (see thresh). Sense of "beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail" is first recorded 1620s. Meaning "to make wild movements like those of a flail or whip" is attested from 1846. Related: Thrashed; thrashing. As a noun from 1660s, "threshing tool;" 1840s as "a beating;" 1982 as the name for a type of fast heavy metal music.

Wiktionary
thrash

n. 1 A beat or blow; the sound of beating. 2 (context music English) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking. vb. 1 To beat mercilessly. 2 To defeat utterly.

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WordNet
thrash

n. a swimming kick used while treading water

thrash

  1. v. give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thresh, lam, flail]

  2. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]

  3. dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh]

  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; "The system is thrashing again!"

  6. beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thresh]

  7. beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: bat, clobber, drub, lick]

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Wikipedia
Thrash

Thrash may refer to:

  • Thrashing (computer science), where increasing resources are used to do a decreasing amount of work
  • Thrash (surname)
  • Thrash, mascot of the Atlanta Thrashers
  • Thrash Rally, a top-down perspective rally racing video game developed by ADK
Thrash (surname)

Thrash is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Dox Thrash (1893–1965), American artist
  • James Thrash (born 1975), American football player
  • Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. (born 1951), American judge
  • William G. Thrash (1916–2011), United States Marine Corps general
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Usage examples of "thrash".

The spider legs of the Aberrant flexed within a few feet of her, each as thick as her arm, encircling the heaving flanks of the thrashing beast.

The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.

They gasped at the sight of the afanc, thrashing furiously now in the lake with its great neck bending to and fro.

Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once more securing it back into the serpentine of his clumsy arquebus, for if that scurvy, ill-natured pig of a Seosaidh Scot who had robbed him of his well-earned sleep and set him to this useless, thankless task should come by and find his match unlit, he surely would set about thrashing Raibert.

The hawk bated, wings flapping and thrashing, and Romilly jerked, with a convulsive reflex action, and the strip of raw meat fell into the straw.

The falcon bated again, thrashing furious wings, and Romilly struggled to maintain the sense of herself, not merging into the terror and fury of the angry bird, at the same time trying to send out waves of calm.

At the words and movement the hawk bated again, more fiercely than before, and Romilly gasped, struggling to keep her sense of self against the fury of thrashing wings, the hunger, the blood-lust, the frenzy to break free, fly free, dash itself to death against the dark enclosing beams .

The officer left us, and a moment afterwards the landlord came in respectfully, to inform the captain that he was free, but the captain having begged me to tell the scoundrel that he owed him a sound thrashing, he lost no time in gaining the door.

He had concluded long ago that all possible relations, even those of enmity--practical enmity at least--were over between them, and that Mr Beauchamp considered the bejan sufficiently punished for thrashing him, by being deprived of his condescending notice for the rest of the ages.

Then he started running, slo-mo steps through the water, thrashing and splashing as the Blimp closed in.

Still holding his eyes, he opened his mouth to give the order that would send Blucher once more thrashing southward, but before the words reached his lips, a wild shout from the look-out interrupted him.

The flotilla of boats and men drifted and motored closer to the shore, ineffectually trying to cage the caiman thrashing in the water.

Those minutes in the Marauia, swimming in the current and hearing the giant caiman thrashing and lunging about in the water behind him, had been some of the longest in his life.

The black caiman and constrictors must hear his passage as the thrashes of something wounded.

Next day, he told me that if the Jew came home at the same time and by the same way as before, he would have a thrashing before he got to bed.