| 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. |
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