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Thrashed

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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thrashed

vb. (en-past of: thrash)

Usage examples of "thrashed".

The big man thrashed wildly, but with his wrists firmly chained and his legs stuck fast to the wall, the movement did little but reinvigorate the agony in his shoulders.

Below, white water thrashed over many looming rocks and waves thundered against the stony shore, a war that had been raging for millennia.

Torgar thrashed and kicked, even managed to bite one, but he was at an impossible disadvantage.

The organs gushed fluid and collapsed, and the serpents thrashed in joy.

Encased in an invisible sphere of magical force it thrashed about in panic.

She knew it when the entity's limbs flailed and thrashed in spasms, the one on her ankle releasing her to twist and flop about.

It burned like fire, and both of the sword wielders shrieked and thrashed as their skin blistered and reddened.

She lay there, defeated, while Quenthel thrashed and shrieked in agony nearby.

In the hall, the scorpion thrashed its tail and righted itself, oriented on me again with an uncanny intelligence, and flew toward me.

The wire whipped and thrashed around, the other end darting toward the floor, and I seized it in both hands, twisted it up and away from attaching itself at the other end.

She cut a slit in the chain link fence and I squeezed through it while the chlorofiend thrashed, still pinned.

The serpents writhed and thrashed around for a second, and then imploded, vanishing, leaving behind nothing but a coating of clear, glistening slime in their place.

She thrashed her arms and struggled, useless against the grip of the ground she was buried in.

He thrashed on the courtyard stones in a frantic tangle of flailing limbs.

It struck at the base of the bird's neck, and Tavi felt the blow in his hand as the bird struggled and thrashed, a quivering sensation like that of a fish on a line.