Thrash

Quick meaning: Thrash is a verb meaning To beat mercilessly.

Meaning

To beat mercilessly.

More Meanings

1. To defeat utterly.
2. To thresh.
3. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
4. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
5. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
6. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
7. (rail transport, uncountable) The roar and smoke of a particularly powerful diesel engine.

Example Sentences

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

As performers, we girls have our hair. That's the real thing guys want to see. They love to see the long hair move. They want you to thrash it.

But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.

As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.

Word Forms

• thrashes
• thrashing
• thrashed

Synonyms for thrash

Depending on context, synonyms include slam, toss, lick, convulse, thresh, drub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lam, clobber, slam, toss, slash, convulse.

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