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thrashswimming kicktreading water

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thrash

noun

1 thrash

A swimming kick used while treading water.

verb

1 thrash

Give a thrashing to; beat hard.

synonyms: flail, lam, thresh.

2 thrash

Move or stir about violently:
— The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed.

synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss.

Dutch: woelen

3 thrash

Dance the slam dance.

synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance.

Dutch: pogoën

4 thrash

Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all.

5 thrash

Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation.

6 thrash

Beat the seeds out of a grain.

synonym: thresh.

7 thrash

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.

synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick.

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; ... show more

Dutch: ranselen


Moby thesaurus: bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, belt, best, birch, bolt, buffet, cane, clobber, club, cordon, cordon off, cowhide, cudgel ... show more.

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