Synonyms for thrashing
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : thrash-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθræʃ ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for thrashing Other synonyms for the word thrashing
- bashing
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- count
- defeasance
- defeat
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- flogging
- hiding
- insuccess
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- vanquishment
- waxing
- whaling
- whitewashing
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for thrashing
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