Antonyms for thrash
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : thrash |
| Phonetic Transcription : θræʃ |
Definition of thrash
Origin :- 1580s, "to separate grains from wheat, etc., by beating," dialectal variant of threshen (see thresh). Sense of "beat (someone) with (or as if with) a flail" is first recorded c.1600. Meaning "to make wild movements like those of a flail or whip" is attested from 1846. Related: Thrashed; thrashing. Type of fast heavy metal music first called by this name 1982.
- verb flail about; beat
- But I'm goin' to thrash this Yank within an inch of his life; see if I don't.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- “And after that we can thrash Zeke and Lem with a good heart,” suggested Tom.
- Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
- Did you give him over to the police, or thrash him soundly with your stick?
- Extract from : « The Rambles of a Rat » by A. L. O. E.
- Thrash that girl as if she were a bay boy, for she richly deserves it!
- Extract from : « Hidden Hand » by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
- Now it was a place I came to when I had a problem to thrash out.
- Extract from : « Houlihan's Equation » by Walt Sheldon
- Any more of their nonsense and she would thrash them, thrash them both, by God!
- Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
- I'll thrash you till you won't see out of your blasted eyes for a month!
- Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
- If we had to fight for the right to live in this cabin, how many do you think we could thrash?
- Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys Snowbound » by H. Irving Hancock
- I suppose that you have a lot of things to thrash out, so you may as well start now.
- Extract from : « Spacehounds of IPC » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Does it not hurt your Yankee pride that we thrash you so confoundedly?
- Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (of II) » by Charles Darwin
Synonyms for thrash
- batter
- beat up
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- buffet
- bury
- cane
- chasten
- chastise
- clobber
- crush
- defeat
- flagellate
- flog
- jerk
- kill
- lambaste
- lick
- maul
- murder
- overwhelm
- paste
- pelt
- pitch
- pound
- pummel
- punish
- rout
- rush
- scourge
- seesaw
- slaughter
- spank
- stir
- strike
- surge
- tan
- tan one's hide
- thresh
- toss
- toss and turn
- trash
- trim
- trounce
- wallop
- wax
- whip
- work over
- writhe
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