thrashverb
uk/θræʃ/us/θræʃ/thrash verb (HIT)
[ T ] to hit a person or animal hard many times as a punishment:
His father used to thrash him when he was a boy.
He thrashed the horse with his whip.
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Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- cane
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flay
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lynch
- lynch law
- mortification
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- rack
- stone
- tar
- thumbscrew
- treadmill
- walloping
- whip
- whipping
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thrash verb (MOVE)
[ I ] to move from side to side in a violent or uncontrolled way:
He was screaming and thrashing around on the floor.
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Shaking, swinging and vibrating
- agitate
- brandish
- churn
- flourish
- fluff sth up
- jitter
- joggle
- resonate
- reverberate
- rocky
- shake
- stir sth up
- swing
- teeter
- throb
- totter
- tremble
- tremulous
- wag
- worry
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thrash verb (DEFEAT)
[ T ] informal to defeat someone very easily in a game or sports competition:
We thrashed the visiting team 6–0.
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Winning and defeating
- annihilate
- bank
- be one in the eye for sb idiom
- beat sb at their own game idiom
- beat sb hollow idiom
- outmanoeuvre
- outpace
- outperform
- outscore
- overpower
- pip
- reel
- sew
- sweep
- trouncing
- trump
- unassailable
- unbeaten
- undefeated
- wipe
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thrash verb (REMOVE SEEDS)
[ I or T ] to thresh
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- harvest
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- till
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Phrasal verb(s)
thrash sth out