Synonyms for thrash

Grammar : Verb

Spell : thrash

Phonetic Transcription : θræʃ

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Définition 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

Example sentences :

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

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