Thrashed
[θræʃt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Thresh
Edited by Janet
Examples
- The boy was thrashed and his bottles and wires thrown out. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I thrashed 'em. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The word had gone forth that whoever insulted the king should be thrashed, and whoever applauded him should be killed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It's you are thrashed, and not us; and if you are satisfied, why, I think, we should be. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If my lord, after being thrashed, chooses to sit still, dammy let him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I will not have the poor devils thrashed and cut to pieces, and they know it,--and, of course, they know the staff is in their own hands. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I told him he was a liar and a coward, and knocked him down and thrashed him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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