thrashing

thrashing
Synonyms and related words:
Waterloo, assault, bastinado, basting, battering, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, castigation, chastisement, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, discipline, disciplining, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hammering, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, mauling, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pasting, pistol-whipping, pounding, punishment, quietus, rawhiding, rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash, spanking, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, tanning, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment, whipping

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Thrashing — Thrash ing, a. & n. from {Thrash}, v. [1913 Webster] {Thrashing floor}, {Threshing floor}, or {Threshing floor}, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. {Thrashing machine}, a machine for separating grain from the straw. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thrashing — index battery Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • thrashing — [thrash′iŋ] n. a beating; flogging …   English World dictionary

  • Thrashing — Als Paging (vgl. engl. page Speicherseite) oder deutsch Kachelverwaltung bezeichnet man die Methode der Arbeitsspeicher Verwaltung per Seitenadressierung durch Betriebssysteme. Dabei wird häufig aus Effizienzgründen die sogenannte Memory… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • thrashing — noun 1 hitting ADJECTIVE ▪ good, sound VERB + THRASHING ▪ give ▪ get ▪ He got a sound thrashing once his father found out …   Collocations dictionary

  • thrashing — [[t]θræ̱ʃɪŋ[/t]] thrashings 1) N COUNT: usu with supp If one player or team gives another one a thrashing, they defeat them easily or by a large score. [INFORMAL] She dropped only eight points in the 43 minute thrashing of the former Wimbledon… …   English dictionary

  • thrashing — thrash|ing [ˈθræʃıŋ] n especially BrE 1.) an occasion when you beat someone or are beaten violently as a punishment ▪ If you speak to your mother like that again, you ll get a thrashing . ▪ I ll give you the thrashing you deserve. 2.) informal an …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • thrashing — UK [ˈθræʃɪŋ] / US noun [countable] Word forms thrashing : singular thrashing plural thrashings 1) informal an easy victory in a game or competition a 7–1 thrashing 2) an act of hitting someone hard several times, especially as a punishment …   English dictionary

  • thrashing — n. a sound thrashing * * * [ θræʃɪŋ] a sound thrashing …   Combinatory dictionary

  • thrashing — noun (C) give /get a thrashing a) to beat someone or be beaten violently as a punishment: If you speak to your mother like that again, you ll get a thrashing. b) to defeat someone or be defeated easily in a game …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • thrashing —    An excessive amount of disk activity that causes a virtual memory system to spend all its time swapping pages in and out of memory, and no time executing the application.    Thrashing can be caused when poor system configuration creates a swap …   Dictionary of networking

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