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thrash Definition

thrash (t̸hras̸h)

transitive verb

  1. thresh
  2. to make move violently or wildly; beat a bird thrashing its wings
  3. to give a severe beating to; flog
  4. to defeat overwhelmingly

Etymology: ME threschen < OE therscan, akin to Ger dreschen, to thresh < IE base *ter-, to rub > throw

intransitive verb

  1. thresh
  2. to move or toss about violently, flinging the arms, legs, etc. about wildly or vigorously thrashing in agony
  3. to make one's way by thrashing

noun

  1. the act of thrashing
  2. a style of heavy metal rock that is played very fast with minimal melodic and harmonic components, rapidly shouted lyrics about death, destruction, insanity, etc., and both musicians and audience thrashing about, as in slam dancing or moshing

thrash Idioms

thrash out

to settle by detailed discussion

thrash over

to go over (a problem, etc.) in great detail

thrash Synonyms

thrash

v.

  1. To beat

    trounce, flog, flail; see beat 2, punish.

  2. To toss about

    swing, fling, flail; see throw 1, toss 2. See syn. study at beat.

thrash Usage Examples

Object

  • riff: You can rest assured that they still want to ingest your cranial juices after overpowering you with their arsenal of psychotic thrash riffs.
  • metal: Their genre is thrash metal with a modern approach to give them their original style.
  • guitar: You recognize the thrashing guitars of the intro, then Andrew begins the shouting, then everyone else does too.
  • band: DRI, the thrash metal band once said they had a five year plan.
  • ball: He gets away with the first two as Roddick, trying to find a winner, thrashes the ball into the net.
  • machine: Her were fair wide and handsome and sweet sixteen, And her longs for a ride on me thrashing machine.

Modifies a noun

  • metal: They then proceeded to churn out some very loud, far from cute, woozy thrash metal.

Modifying Another Word

  • soundly: Anyone involved in this show should be soundly thrashed to within an inch of his or her worthless existence.
  • about: She was thrashing about on the floor, fighting for breath.
  • away: I played the same piano that Chas & Dave had just been thrashing away at.
  • then: In the winter, these ricks were then thrashed in order to retrieve the grain.
  • still: The cabinet is still thrashing out the details of her alternative plan.
  • really: It wasn't close, we really thrashed them from the start.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: Or equally we could say we clearly are just thrashing around in the dark in the hope of landing a winner.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • around: My group went off, with Cpl Kirby, to a nice big, cold lake to thrash canoes around in.

Particle object:

  • deal: FA chief executive Brian Barwick is in Lisbon to thrash out a deal with the Portugal manager who is Brazilian.
  • proposal: Having thrashed out these proposals the task of presenting them to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture had its own problems.
  • agreement: Yet some parents spend several years of their young children's lives in dispute, trying to thrash out an agreement.
  • detail: Lawyers will thrash out the details over the next few months.
  • idea: Anstey's words We sit around the table each with our own favorite brand of chocolate bar ready to thrash out another idea.
thrash Quotes

There isplentyof timetowinthisgame, and tothrashthe Spaniards too.

—Drake, Sir Francis