THRASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrash mean? 

• THRASH (noun)
  The noun THRASH has 1 sense:

1. a swimming kick used while treading water

  Familiarity information: THRASH used as a noun is very rare.

• THRASH (verb)
  The verb THRASH has 7 senses:

1. give a thrashing to; beat hard

2. move or stir about violently

3. dance the slam dance

4. beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

5. move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation

6. beat the seeds out of a grain

7. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

  Familiarity information: THRASH used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A swimming kick used while treading water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("thrash" is a kind of...):

swimming kick (a movement of the legs in swimming)

Holonyms ("thrash" is a part of...):

treading water (a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms)

Derivation:

thrash (move or stir about violently)

• THRASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they thrash    ... he / she / it thrashes   
Past simple: thrashed   
Past participle: thrashed   
-ing form: thrashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give a thrashing to; beat hard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flail; lam; thrash; thresh

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Verb group:

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to thrash the prisoners

Derivation:

thrashing (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Context example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thrash"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

thrash (a swimming kick used while treading water)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dance the slam dance

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

mosh; slam; slam dance; thrash

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

dance; trip the light fantastic; trip the light fantastic toe (move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue thrash

Sense 4

Meaning:

Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

beat; pound; thump (move rhythmically)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The system is thrashing again!

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

swap (move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Beat the seeds out of a grain

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

thrash; thresh

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

beat (hit repeatedly)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

thrasher (a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash

Context example:

We licked the other team on Sunday!

Hypernyms (to "thrash" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Verb group:

flail; lam; thrash; thresh (give a thrashing to; beat hard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to thrash his opponent

Derivation:

thrashing (a sound defeat)

 Context examples 

But one day the master sprang from the carriage, whip in hand, and gave the stone-throwers a thrashing.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I can't thrash Aunt March, so I suppose I shall have to bear it."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After some time of this, François threw down the club, thinking that Buck feared a thrashing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But of course it is out of the question that Johnson should thrash Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, just as I had hoped that all was settled, in came young Mr. Brummell, who promised to be an even greater exquisite than my uncle, and the whole matter had to be thrashed out between them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Womble stopped a moment to steady his voice and control himself. Then he spoke slowly, in a low, tense voice. Look here, Messner, if you refuse to get out, I'll thrash you. This isn't California. I'll beat you to a jelly with my two fists.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When we came, at last, within a stage of London, and passed the veritable Salem House where Mr. Creakle had laid about him with a heavy hand, I would have given all I had, for lawful permission to get down and thrash him, and let all the boys out like so many caged sparrows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In fact, they were badly wounded, and, having thrashed them, he proceeded to operate upon them in a rough surgical fashion and to dress their wounds.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Buck received them in comradely fashion, Dave ignored them, while Spitz proceeded to thrash first one and then the other.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If he has, after all your kindness to him, I'll thrash him with my own hands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)