| thrash | | |
| n. (act) | 1. thrash | a swimming kick used while treading water. |
| ~ swimming kick | a movement of the legs in swimming. |
| ~ treading water | a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms. |
| v. (contact) | 2. flail, lam, thrash, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| v. (motion) | 3. convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss | move or stir about violently.; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" |
| ~ shake, agitate | move or cause to move back and forth.; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" |
| ~ whip | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
| v. (motion) | 4. mosh, slam, slam dance, thrash | dance the slam dance. |
| ~ trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance | move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance.; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio" |
| v. (motion) | 5. thrash | beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all. |
| ~ thump, beat, pound | move rhythmically.; "Her heart was beating fast" |
| v. (motion) | 6. thrash | move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation.; "The system is thrashing again!" |
| ~ swap | move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science. |
| v. (contact) | 7. thrash, thresh | beat the seeds out of a grain. |
| ~ farming, husbandry, agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. |
| ~ beat | hit repeatedly.; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" |
| v. (contact) | 8. bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ flail, thrash, lam, thresh | give a thrashing to; beat hard. |
| rouse | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bestir, rouse | become active.; "He finally bestirred himself" |
| ~ be active, move | be in a state of action.; "she is always moving" |
| v. (motion) | 2. drive out, force out, rouse, rout out | force or drive out.; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back | force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" |
| ~ hunt | chase away, with as with force.; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
| ~ smoke out | drive out with smoke.; "smoke out the bees" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on | cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" |
| ~ hype up, psych up | get excited or stimulated.; "The children were all psyched up after the movie" |
| ~ disturb, trouble, upset | move deeply.; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought" |
| ~ bother | make nervous or agitated.; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster" |
| ~ pother | make upset or troubled. |
| ~ electrify | excite suddenly and intensely.; "The news electrified us" |
| v. (body) | 4. arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken | cause to become awake or conscious.; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." |
| ~ reawaken | awaken once again. |
| ~ bring to, bring back, bring round, bring around | return to consciousness.; "These pictures bring back sad memories" |
| ~ call | rouse somebody from sleep with a call.; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
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