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Thrash
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A beat or blow; the sound of beating. countable
"Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale."
- 2 a swimming kick used while treading water wordnet
- 3 The roar and smoke of a particularly powerful diesel engine. uncountable
"The private CHENGDE STEELWORKS Class SY / JS 2-8-2 total thrash, some double-heading/double-banking, then to YEBAISHOU where Class QJ 2-10-2 operate freight & some passenger China Rail services"
- 4 Ellipsis of thrash metal. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
- 1 To beat mercilessly.
"But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives."
- 2 beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight wordnet
- 3 To defeat utterly.
"Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth."
- 4 give a thrashing to; beat hard wordnet
- 5 To thresh.
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- 6 beat the seeds out of a grain wordnet
- 7 To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
"I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times."
- 8 move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation wordnet
- 9 To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- 10 beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all wordnet
- 11 In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
- 12 move or stir about violently wordnet
- 13 dance the slam dance wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
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