What is "thrashes"

Usage examples of "thrashes".

He thrashes helplessly, gets a claw loose, and begins to rip at the rope, woven of kelp and flax and strips of bark and hair blessed by the Soft Ones' deacon.

The old creature thrashes, jerking, trying to call down a curse, but the amulet protects Stronghand and his followers from magic.

But when Vitaly Chernobyl thrashes out an experimental guitar solo, it still hurts Hiro's ears.

She hooks it onto her belt so she can't fall and then thrashes around for what seems like a whole minute until she's not tangled up in the cable anymore, lust dangling by the waist, twisting around and around between the chopper and the street, out of control.

In the back of the van his new gorilla alternately thrashes and dozes.