Thrash

Verb

 * 1) To beat mercilessly.
 * 2) To defeat utterly.
 * 3) To thresh.
 * 4) To move about wildly or violently; to flail.
 * 5)  To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
 * 6)  In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
 * 1)  In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Noun

 * 1) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
 * 2) * 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams,
 * Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
 * 1) * 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
 * As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
 * 1)  A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

Synonyms

 * thrash metal

Adverbs for Thrash
brutally; soundly; wildly; cruelly; viciously; bestially; penally; fiercely; passionately.

Thesaurus
bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, belt, best, birch, bolt, buffet, cane, clobber, club, cordon, cordon off, cowhide, cudgel, cull out, cut, defeat, destroy, divide, do in, drub, fix, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, fustigate, ghettoize, gin, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hide, hors de combat, horsewhip, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lay aside, lay on, lick, maul, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, pail, paste, patter, pelt, pick out, pistol-whip, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, put, put aside, quarantine, rap, rawhide, riddle, ruin, scourge, screen, seclude, segregate, separate, set apart, set aside, settle, shellac, sieve, sift, skin, skin alive, sledgehammer, smear, smite, smother, sort out, spank, strap, strike, stripe, swinge, switch, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trounce, truncheon, undo, wallop, wear out, whale, whip, whop, winnow, worst

Pronunciation

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Verb

 * Finnish: pieksää
 * Russian: молотить


 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
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 * Finnish: rökittää