'Thrashing' definitions:
Definition of 'thrashing'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Thrashing'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Thrashing'
From: GCIDE
- 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
Synonyms of 'thrashing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Waterloo,
- whipping