The dog sniffed at a fish lying on the landing stage and, taking fright when it suddenly began to thrash about, fell into the water.
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Thrash
Synonyms for "thrash" (178 found)
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Verb(13 words)
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8 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 20 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- Ta Rrash verb (to beat mercilessly)
Bulgarian
2 entries- напердашвам verb (to beat mercilessly)
- пребивам verb (to beat mercilessly)
Danish
1 entries- tæske verb (to beat mercilessly)
Dutch
1 entries- afranselen verb (to beat mercilessly)
Esperanto
1 entries- draŝi verb (to beat mercilessly)
Estonian
1 entries- peksma verb (to beat mercilessly)
Finnish
4 entries- koeajaa perin pohjin verb (software: to extensively test a software system)
- pieksää verb (to beat mercilessly)
- ruuhkautua verb (computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory)
- rökittää verb (to defeat utterly)
French
4 entries- battre à plate couture verb (to defeat utterly)
- défoncer verb (to defeat utterly)
- humilier verb (to defeat utterly)
- passer à tabac verb (to beat mercilessly)
German
4 entries- besiegen verb (to defeat utterly)
- dreschen verb (to beat mercilessly)
- eindreschen verb (to beat mercilessly)
- schlagen verb (to beat mercilessly)
Irish
3 entries- gread verb (to beat mercilessly)
- greasáil verb (to beat mercilessly)
- liúr verb (to beat mercilessly)
Italian
4 entries- annientare verb (to defeat utterly)
- bastonare verb (to beat mercilessly)
- infierire verb (to beat mercilessly)
- percuotere verb (to beat mercilessly)
Norman
2 entries- dêgraîssi verb (to beat mercilessly)
- rosser verb (to defeat utterly)
Portuguese
2 entries- agitar-se verb (to move about wildly or violently)
- mover-se para um e outro lado verb (to move about wildly or violently)
Russian
4 entries- долбить verb (to beat mercilessly)
- колоти́ть verb (to beat mercilessly)
- лупи́ть verb (to beat mercilessly)
- молоти́ть verb (to beat mercilessly)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buail verb (to beat mercilessly)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- mlatiti verb (to beat mercilessly)
Slovak
3 entries- mlátiť verb (to beat mercilessly)
- rozdrviť verb (to defeat utterly)
- tĺcť verb (to beat mercilessly)
Spanish
3 entries- bejuquear verb (to beat mercilessly)
- vapulear verb (to beat mercilessly)
- zurrar verb (to beat mercilessly)
Swedish
4 entries- ge stryk verb (to beat mercilessly)
- klå verb (to beat mercilessly)
- klå verb (to defeat utterly)
- spöa verb (to beat mercilessly)
Ukrainian
4 entries- гамсе́лити verb (to beat mercilessly)
- голо́мшити verb (to beat mercilessly)
- дуба́сити verb (to beat mercilessly)
- лупи́ти verb (to beat mercilessly)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
If we don't get home now, your dad will thrash you!
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Tom went out into the yard of his Australian home to thrash about the mice with a broom.
Source: tatoeba (10070042)
I fancied that it would not be very difficult to thrash him, but found that I had made a great mistake.
Source: tatoeba (11030140)
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