Definitions for thrash
θræʃthrash

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. thrashverb

   a swimming kick used while treading water

2. thrash, thresh, lam, flailverb

   give a thrashing to; beat hard

3. convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitateverb

   move or stir about violently

   "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

4. slam dance, slam, mosh, thrashverb

   dance the slam dance

5. thrashverb

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

6. thrashverb

   move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation

   "The system is thrashing again!"

7. thrash, threshverb

   beat the seeds out of a grain

8. cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lickverb

   beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

   "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thrashnoun

   A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

2. thrashnoun

   A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

3. thrashverb

   To beat mercilessly.

4. thrashverb

   To defeat utterly.

5. thrashverb

   To thresh.

6. thrashverb

   To move about wildly or violently; to flail.

7. thrashverb

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

8. thrashverb

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Thrashverb

   Etymology: ðarscan , Saxon; derschen, Dutch.

   1. To beat corn to free it from the chaff. This is written variously thrash or thresh, but thrash is agreeable to etymology.

   First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw. William Shakespeare.

   Gideon threshed wheat to hide it. Judg. viii. 11.

   Here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments for wood. 2 Sam. xxiv. 22.

   In the sun your golden grain display,
   And thrash it out, and winnow it by day. Dryden.

   This is to preserve the ends of the bones from an incalescency, which they being hard bodies would contract from a swift motion; such as that of running or threshing. John Ray.

   Out of your clover well dried in the sun, after the first threshing, get what seed you can. John Mortimer.

   2. To beat; to drub.

   Thou scurvy valiant ass! thou art here but to thrash Trojans, and thou art bought and sold among those of any wit like a Barbarian slave. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida.

2. To Thrashverb

   To labour; to drudge.

   I rather wou’d be Mevius, thresh for rhimes
   Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times,
   Than that Philippick fatally divine,
   Which is inscrib’d the second, should be mine. Dryden.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thrash

   Thrash generally refers to a swift and violent movement, typically from side to side as a form of protest or struggle. It can also indicate a severe defeat or outperforming someone in a competition. Additionally, in music, "thrash" is a subgenre of heavy metal known for its high speed and aggression. In computing, it refers to the state when a system is extremely busy in swapping tasks in and out of memory that it can't actually perform any processing.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Thrashverb

   alt. of Thresh

2. Thrashverb

   alt. of Thresh

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Thrash

   thrash, v.t. to heat out grain from the straw, to beat soundly—also Thresh.—ns. Thrash′er, Thresh′er; Thrash′ing, Thresh′ing, the act of beating out grain from the straw: a sound beating or drubbing; Thrash′ing-floor, Thresh′ing-floor, a floor on which grain is thrashed; Thrash′ing-machine′, -mill, a machine or apparatus for thrashing corn. [A.S. therscan; cog. with Ger. dreschen.]

2. Thrash

   thrash, n. (Scot.) a rush.—Also Thresh.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thrash

   To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as thrashing. Compare multitask.

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1. thrash

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. THRASH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Thrash is ranked #7117 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Thrash surname appeared 4,701 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Thrash.
   
   69.7% or 3,279 total occurrences were White.
   24.2% or 1,140 total occurrences were Black.
   2.8% or 136 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 90 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 30 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Agriculture
   • Beat
   • Dance
   • Swap

How to pronounce thrash?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say thrash in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of thrash in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of thrash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of thrash in a Sentence

1. Abdul Majeed:

   While in the stream he once again pointed his revolver at us and fearing that he may shoot directly at us, I threw a stone at him, some of us did thrash him... because he had given us a tough time. But later we handed him over to the army personnel.

2. Abdel Samad:

   The Libyans thrash us.

3. Mickey Mehta:

   Today life is going through unstable paces, animals slaved in cages and food exhibited in show-cases. We eat thrash, our language is brash, life is a dash and humanity is about to crash. Black is cash, party is a bash and cleansing is just a splash. Wake up, come back to nature or else a human being will just be reduced to a caricature . Let your life be naturalized, get MickeyMized.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=thrash
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thrash
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=thrash
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thrash
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=thrash
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Thrash
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html