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    thrashing
    /ˈθraʃɪŋ/

    noun

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  2. Thrashing can mean hitting someone or an animal hard as a punishment, defeating someone easily in a game or competition, or moving from side to side violently. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and translations.

  3. Thrashing is a noun that means a severe beating or flogging, or a dominating defeat of an opponent. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and usage of thrashing from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

  4. Thrash can mean to hit, move, defeat, or remove seeds. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts and see synonyms and translations.

  5. Thrashing means a flogging, whipping, or a convincing defeat. It can also refer to a pile of threshed grain or a physical assault. See how to use thrashing in a sentence and its origin and history.

  6. /ˈθræʃɪŋ/ an act of hitting a person or an animal very hard, especially with a stick. to give somebody/get a thrashing. He got a sound thrashing once his father found out. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English.

  7. noun. 1. A punishment dealt with blows or lashes: beating, flogging, hiding, lashing, whipping. Informal: trimming. Slang: licking. 2. The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated:

  8. Thrashing means a physical assault, a flogging, or a convincing defeat. Learn how to use this word in different contexts with synonyms, pronunciation, and sentences.