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English

Pronunciation

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æʃ|-æʃ

Verb

To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.

Noun

A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

Translations

Spanish: vapulear

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
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I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
--Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
[1913 Webster] Thrash

WordNet thrash
n : a swimming kick used while treading water
v 1: 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]

Moby Dictionary
bang , baste , bastinado , batter , beat , beat all hollow , beat hollow ,
belabor , belt , best , birch , bolt , buffet , cane , clobber , club ,
cordon , cordon off , cowhide , cudgel , cull out , cut , defeat ,
destroy , divide , do in , drub , fix , flagellate , flail , flap , flog ,
fustigate , ghettoize , gin , give a whipping , give the stick , hammer ,
hide , hors de combat , horsewhip , insulate , isolate , keep apart ,
keep aside , knock , knout , lace , lambaste , larrup , lash , lather ,
lay aside , lay on , lick , maul , outclass , outdo , outfight ,
outgeneral , outmaneuver , outpoint , outrun , outsail , outshine , pail ,
paste , patter , pelt , pick out , pistol-whip , pommel , pound ,
pulverize , pummel , put , put aside , quarantine , rap , rawhide ,
riddle , ruin , scourge , screen , seclude , segregate , separate ,
set apart , set aside , settle , shellac , sieve , sift , skin ,
skin alive , sledgehammer , smear , smite , smother , sort out , spank ,
strap , strike , stripe , swinge , switch , thresh , thump , trim ,
triumph over , trounce , truncheon , undo , wallop , wear out , whale ,
whip , whop , winnow , worst

Jargon thrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything
useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of
their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing
useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps
changing his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be
thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once
(and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described
as thrashing. Compare multitask.

FOLDOC thrash

To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything
useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded
waste most of their time moving data into and out of core
(rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore
said to thrash. Thrashing can also occur in a cache due to
cache conflict or in a multiprocessor (see ping-pong).

Someone who keeps changing his mind (especially about what to
work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically
trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending
enough time on any single task) may also be described as
thrashing.

Compare multitask.

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