thrash
a swimming kick used while treading water
• Hypernyms:
swimming kick
• Part Holonyms:
treading water
1. give a thrashing to;
beat hard (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
thresh, lam, flail
• Derivationally related forms:
flail (for: flail), thrashing
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat up, work over
• Verb Group:
cream, bat, clobber, drub, lick
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to thrash the prisoners
2. move or stir about violently (Freq. 1)
- The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
• Syn:
convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash about, slash,
toss, jactitate
• Derivationally related forms:
jactitation (for: jactitate), toss (for: toss)
• Hypernyms:
shake, agitate
• Hyponyms:
whip
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- We licked the other team on Sunday!
• Syn:
cream, bat, clobber, drub, lick
• Derivationally related forms:
thrashing, drubbing (for: drub)
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Verb Group:
thresh, lam, flail
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- The fighter managed to thrash his opponent
4. dance the slam dance
• Syn:
slam dance, slam, mosh
• Derivationally related forms:
slam dancing (for: slam dance), slam dance (for: slam dance)
• Hypernyms:
dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Sam and Sue thrash
5. beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
• Hypernyms:
beat, pound, thump
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
6. move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
- The system is thrashing again!
• Hypernyms:
swap
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
7. beat the seeds out of a grain
• Syn:
thresh
• Derivationally related forms:
thresher (for: thresh), threshing (for: thresh), thrasher
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
beat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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