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Synonyms for (noun) thrash

Synonyms: thrash Definition: a swimming kick used while treading water

Hypernyms: swimming kick Definition: a movement of the legs in swimming

Synonyms for (verb) thrash

Synonyms: clobber, thrash, lick, drub, cream, bat Definition: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight Usage: We licked the other team on Sunday!

Hypernyms: trounce, crush, vanquish, shell, beat, beat out Definition: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Usage: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship; We beat the competition; Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash, thresh Definition: give a thrashing to; beat hard

Hypernyms: work over, beat, beat up Definition: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression Usage: Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night; The teacher used to beat the students

Synonyms: thrash, thresh Definition: beat the seeds out of a grain

Hypernyms: beat Definition: hit repeatedly Usage: beat on the door; beat the table with his shoe

Synonyms: thrash Definition: move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation Usage: The system is thrashing again!

Hypernyms: swap Definition: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

Synonyms: thrash Definition: beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

Hypernyms: pound, thump, beat Definition: move rhythmically Usage: Her heart was beating fast

Synonyms: thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss, slash, convulse, jactitate Definition: move or stir about violently Usage: The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Hypernyms: shake, agitate Definition: move or cause to move back and forth Usage: The chemist shook the flask vigorously; My hands were shaking

Synonyms: slam, slam dance, mosh, thrash Definition: dance the slam dance

Hypernyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance Definition: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance Usage: My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio