Thrash
[θræʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a swimming kick used while treading water.
(verb.) give a thrashing to; beat hard.
(verb.) beat the seeds out of a grain.
(verb.) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all.
(verb.) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; 'The system is thrashing again!'.
Editor: Stu--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
(v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Thresh.[2]. Drub, maul, pommel, beat, flog, bruise, thwack, LICK, LAMM, WALLOP.
Edited by Erna
Definition
n. (Scot.) a rush.—Also Thresh.
v.t. to heat out grain from the straw to beat soundly—also Thresh.—ns. Thrash′er Thresh′er; Thrash′ing Thresh′ing the act of beating out grain from the straw: a sound beating or drubbing; Thrash′ing-floor Thresh′ing-floor a floor on which grain is thrashed; Thrash′ing-machine′ -mill a machine or apparatus for thrashing corn.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- D---- it, ma'am, let's put him on the old woman, hey, and tell him to thrash Pitt if he says anything. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If he has, after all your kindness to him, I'll thrash him with my own hands. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I can't thrash Aunt March, so I suppose I shall have to bear it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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.
- For thrashing him last night--didn't he, Dobbin? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The hastily lowered lifeboat pointed a slim nose toward the large black shape thrashing about in the shallow water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Scores of times the men in the boat escaped death only by a miracle, as the wildly thrashing black tail missed them but by a hair’s breadth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When, said he solemnly, and looking upward, wilt thou come with thy fanners to purge the thrashing-floor? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You'd best give in, he said to Dobbin; it's only a thrashing, Figs, and you know I'm used to it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The busy little dressmaker quickly snipped the shirt away, and laid bare the results of as furious and sound a thrashing as even Mr Fledgeby merited. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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