Meaning

6 senses

  1. To beat mercilessly.

    schlagen, dreschen, zusammenschlagen

    молоти́тьmolotítʹ, колоти́тьkolotítʹ, лупи́тьlupítʹ

    лупцюва́тиlupcjuváty, мотлоши́тиmotlošýty, чухра́тиčuxráty

    give a thrashing to; beat hard

  2. To defeat utterly.

    besiegen, zerstören, vernichten

    разгроми́тьrazgromítʹ, разби́тьrazbítʹ

    розтрощи́тиroztroščýty, розгроми́тиrozhromýty

  3. To thresh.

  4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

    move or stir about violently

  5. To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

    молоти́тьmolotítʹ

  6. In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Examples

21 sentences

  1. We gave them a proper thrashing.

    Ми їх добре відлупцювали. — Rovo

    ruМы задали им хорошую взбучку. — Wezel

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  2. He gave them a good thrashing.

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  3. He's in for a right thrashing.

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  4. The rock band thrashed the hotel room.

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  5. We got thrashed at the match today.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to beat mercilessly:
to defeat utterly:
Русский
By meaning 2
to beat mercilessly:
to defeat utterly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to beat mercilessly:
to defeat utterly:

Origin

From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressy

From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”).

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Forms

thrashes, thrashing, thrashed, thrashed
Base formthrash · to thrash
3rd person singularthrashes
Present participlethrashing
Past simplethrashed
Past participlethrashed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythrash
he, she, itthrashes

Past simpleLesson

all personsthrashed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thrashed
he, she, ithas thrashed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill thrash

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedthrashingthrasher
Derivedthrash aboutthrash outunthrashed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thousandththrallthreadB2threadbarethreatB1
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