Thrashing \Thrash"ing\,
a. & n. from Thrash, v.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] [OE.
[thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan,
[thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G.
dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska,
Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to
rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash,
OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]
1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the
straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the
kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to
thrash over the old straw.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
[1913 Webster] Thrash
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
thrashing
n 1: a sound defeat [syn: walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter,
trouncing, whipping]
2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
blows [syn: beating, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing,
whacking]
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "thrashing":
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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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