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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a sound defeat;
[syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]

2. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows;
[syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]


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. [1913 Webster] The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster] 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 \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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thrashing n 1: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

thrash thrashing 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. Thrashing can also occur in a cache due to cache conflict or in a multiprocessor (see ping-pong). Someone who keeps changing his mind (especially 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. [Jargon File]