Antonyms for thrashing

Grammar : Noun

Spell : thrash-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈθræʃ ɪŋ

Definition of thrashing

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.

noun beating
noun defeat

Example sentences :

Perhaps never in his twenty-two years had young Drummond been so near a thrashing.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This he jerked up and down to make ready for his task of thrashing "the pigmy."
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

And all the better, I dare say, for the thrashing he got when a youngster, from the Vermont tailor.
Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

They had had to take a thrashing, but that was no reason why a man should not fill his stomach.
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

From somewhere in the grove came a thrashing of branches and a frightened neigh.
Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln

But unless you want a thrashing in the presence of a lady, you'll do nothing foolish.
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

But was the man received in society after the thrashing I gave him?
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Scoundrel, draw your sword, unless you want me to give you a thrashing!
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

It was bad for the children; they got unruly; and yesterday he actually had to give Gustav a thrashing.
Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad

And thrashing noises a little later might have been anything.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various

Synonyms for thrashing

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