"thrash" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /θɹæʃ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thrash.wav Forms: thrashes [plural]
Rhymes: -æʃ Etymology: From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|thrasshen}} Middle English thrasshen, {{inh|en|ang|þrescan}} Old English þrescan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þreskaną}} Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, {{cog|goh|dreskan}} Old High German dreskan, {{cog|non|þreskja}} Old Norse þreskja Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
  1. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating. Tags: countable
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  2. (music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Alternative form of: thrash metal Categories (topical): Musical genres
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: neo-thrash

Verb

IPA: /θɹæʃ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thrash.wav Forms: thrashes [present, singular, third-person], thrashing [participle, present], thrashed [participle, past], thrashed [past]
Rhymes: -æʃ Etymology: From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|thrasshen}} Middle English thrasshen, {{inh|en|ang|þrescan}} Old English þrescan, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þreskaną}} Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, {{cog|goh|dreskan}} Old High German dreskan, {{cog|non|þreskja}} Old Norse þreskja Head templates: {{en-verb}} thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
  1. To beat mercilessly. Translations (to beat mercilessly): напердашвам (naperdašvam) (Bulgarian), пребивам (prebivam) (Bulgarian), tæske (Danish), afranselen (Dutch), draŝi (Esperanto), peksma (Estonian), pieksää (Finnish), passer à tabac (French), rosser (French), schlagen (German), dreschen (German), zusammenschlagen (German), eindreschen (German), greasáil (Irish), gread (Irish), liúr (Irish), infierire (Italian), sferzare (Italian), percuotere (Italian), bastonare (Italian), picchiare (Italian), dêgraîssi (Norman), молоти́ть (molotítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), колоти́ть (kolotítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), лупи́ть (lupítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), долбить (dolbitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), buail (Scottish Gaelic), mlatiti (Serbo-Croatian), mlátiť (Slovak), tĺcť (Slovak), vapulear (Spanish), zurrar (Spanish), bejuquear (Spanish), spöa (Swedish), spöa upp (Swedish), ge stryk (Swedish), klå (Swedish), лупцюва́ти (lupcjuváty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), мотлоши́ти (motlošýty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), чухра́ти (čuxráty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), дуба́сити (dubásyty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), лупи́ти (lupýty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), гамсе́лити (hamsélyty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), голо́мшити (holómšyty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
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  2. To defeat utterly. Translations (to defeat utterly): rökittää (Finnish), écraser (French), battre à plate couture (French), humilier (French), défoncer (French), éclater (French), besiegen (German), zerstören (German), vernichten (German), annientare (Italian), sconfiggere (Italian), travolgere (Italian), rosser (Norman), разгроми́ть (razgromítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), разби́ть (razbítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), rozdrviť (Slovak), spöa (Swedish), klå (Swedish), розтрощи́ти (roztroščýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), розгроми́ти (rozhromýty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
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  3. To thresh.
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  4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. Categories (topical): Violence
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  5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. Categories (topical): Software Translations (software: to extensively test a software system): koeajaa perin pohjin (Finnish), testata perin pohjin (Finnish), молоти́ть (molotítʹ) [imperfective] (Russian)
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  6. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. Categories (topical): Computing Translations (computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory): ruuhkautua (Finnish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: thrash about, thrashel, thrasher, thrash out

Inflected forms

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          "text": "But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.",
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          "ref": "2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:",
          "text": "The rural Midland & Great Northern backwaters from Norfolk to Leicester closed in February 1959 before they could be used there, and thrashing them on the GN main line instead resulted in a memorably poor ride and rattling windows, caused by vibration from their engines and suspect suspension.",
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          "text": "As performers, we girls have our hair. That's the real thing guys want to see. They love to see the long hair move. They want you to thrash it.",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "напердашвам"
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "tæske"
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "afranselen"
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "draŝi"
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      "code": "et",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "peksma"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "pieksää"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "passer à tabac"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "rosser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "schlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "dreschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "zusammenschlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "eindreschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "greasáil"
    },
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "gread"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "liúr"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "infierire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "sferzare"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "percuotere"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "bastonare"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "picchiare"
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      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "dêgraîssi"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "molotítʹ",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "молоти́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolotítʹ",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "колоти́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lupítʹ",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "лупи́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dolbitʹ",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "долбить"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "buail"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "mlatiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
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      "word": "mlátiť"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "tĺcť"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "vapulear"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "zurrar"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "bejuquear"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "spöa"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "spöa upp"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "word": "ge stryk"
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      "word": "klå"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "дуба́сити"
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      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "hamsélyty",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "гамсе́лити"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "holómšyty",
      "sense": "to beat mercilessly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "голо́мшити"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "rökittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "écraser"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "battre à plate couture"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "humilier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "défoncer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "éclater"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "besiegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "zerstören"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "vernichten"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "annientare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "sconfiggere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "travolgere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "rosser"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razgromítʹ",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "разгроми́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razbítʹ",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "разби́ть"
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    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "rozdrviť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "spöa"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "word": "klå"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "roztroščýty",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "розтрощи́ти"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "rozhromýty",
      "sense": "to defeat utterly",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "software: to extensively test a software system",
      "word": "koeajaa perin pohjin"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "software: to extensively test a software system",
      "word": "testata perin pohjin"
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          "ref": "1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.",
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        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
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        "Ellipsis of thrash metal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "thrash metal",
          "thrash metal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "ellipsis",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/θɹæʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æʃ"
    }
  ],
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}

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