thrash
verb
[ θraʃ ]
• beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip.
• "she thrashed him across the head and shoulders"
Similar:
hit,
beat,
flog,
whip,
horsewhip,
scourge,
lash,
flagellate,
flail,
strap,
birch,
cane,
belt,
leather,
bullwhip,
give someone a hiding,
tan someone's hide,
lather,
paste,
take a strap to,
whale,
switch,
stripe,
thong,
quirt,
beating,
flogging,
whipping,
horsewhipping,
scourging,
lashing,
flagellation,
caning,
belting,
leathering,
the strap,
the birch,
the cane,
the belt,
bullwhipping,
hiding,
tanning,
lathering,
pasting,
going-over,
• move in a violent and convulsive way.
• "he lay on the ground thrashing around in pain"
Similar:
flail,
thresh,
flounder,
toss and turn,
jerk,
toss,
squirm,
writhe,
twist,
wriggle,
wiggle,
twitch,
• defeat heavily in a contest or match.
• "I thrashed Pete at cards"
Similar:
trounce,
beat hollow,
defeat utterly,
rout,
annihilate,
triumph over,
win a resounding victory over,
be victorious over,
crush,
overwhelm,
best,
get the better of,
worst,
bring someone to their knees,
lick,
hammer,
clobber,
paste,
pound,
pulverize,
crucify,
demolish,
destroy,
drub,
give someone a drubbing,
cane,
walk all over,
wipe the floor with,
give someone a hiding,
take to the cleaners,
blow someone out of the water,
make mincemeat of,
murder,
massacre,
slaughter,
flatten,
turn inside out,
tank,
stuff,
marmalize,
blow out,
cream,
shellac,
skunk,
slam,
own,
crushing defeat,
overwhelming defeat,
beating,
trouncing,
walloping,
thumping,
battering,
hiding,
licking,
pasting,
caning,
going-over,
drubbing,
hammering,
pounding,
clobbering,
demolition,
annihilation,
shellacking,
thrash
noun
• a violent or noisy movement of beating or thrashing.
• "the thrash of the waves"
• a party, especially a loud or lavish one.
• "Henry's charity ball had been one hell of a thrash"
• a short, fast, loud piece or passage of rock music.
• "after all those twelve-bar thrashes, my fingers were blistered"
Origin:
Old English, variant of thresh (an early sense). Current senses of the noun date from the mid 19th century.
