thrash

Meaning

Verb

1. To beat mercilessly.
2. To defeat utterly.
3. To thresh.
4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
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 or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Noun

1. (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal.

Synonyms

beat

thresh

whip

flog

lash

strike

hit

belabour

punch

👊

beat up

drub

pound

💷

clobber

toss

scourge

batter

bang

wallop

cudgel

lick

trounce

punish

spank

smack

slash

smite

thrash about

jactitate

cream

convulse

thresh about

lam

club

slam

flail

discipline

hammer

🔨

knock

cane

clap

👏

bludgeon

thwack

swat

bat

🦇

hit hard

baste

chastise

castigate

paste

rout

Translations

battre

rosser

afranselen

battere

dreschen

prügeln

aftuigen

dorsen

trebbiare

trillar

afrossen

schlagen

verdreschen

verprügeln

picchiare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θɹæʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: thrasshen

Inherited from Old English: þrescan

Cognate with Old High German: dreskan

Cognate with Old Norse: þreskja

In summary

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.