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thrashing   (TTS Sound)

The noun thrashing has 2 senses

• thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping -- (a sound defeat)


• beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking -- (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)

The verb thrash has 7 senses

• thrash, thresh, lam, flail -- (give a thrashing to; beat hard)


• convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate -- (move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed")


• slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash -- (dance the slam dance)


• thrash -- (beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all)


• thrash -- (move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!")


• thrash, thresh -- (beat the seeds out of a grain)


• cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick -- (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!")