thrash
See also: Thrash
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þrescan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æʃ
Verb
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- To beat mercilessly.
- 1979 November 30, Roger Waters, “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, in The Wall[1]:
- But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
- To defeat utterly.
- 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC[2]:
- Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- c. 1690 Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
- c. 1690 Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Derived terms
Translations
to beat mercilessly
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to defeat utterly
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to thresh — see thresh
software: to extensively test a software system
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computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory
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Noun
thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
- (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:
- Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
- 2016, Clark Nida, The Titan Kiss:
- Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.
- (music, uncountable) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
Synonyms
- (music): thrash metal
References
- (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
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