thrash
Meaning
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- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Synonyms
belabour
thresh about
hit hard
slam dance
beat soundly
clapperclaw
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/θɹæʃ/
Etymology
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.
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