thrashes

Meaning of thrashes

verb, 3rd person present
  1. beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip.
    she thrashed him across the head and shoulders
  2. move in a violent and convulsive way.
    he lay on the ground thrashing around in pain
    she thrashed her arms, attempting to swim
  3. defeat heavily in a contest or match.
    I thrashed Pete at cards
    Newcastle were thrashed 8–1 by the Czech team
plural noun
  1. a violent or noisy movement of beating or thrashing.
    the thrash of the waves
  2. a party, especially a loud or lavish one.
    Henry's charity ball had been one hell of a thrash
  3. a short, fast, loud piece or passage of rock music.
    after all those twelve-bar thrashes, my fingers were blistered

Old English, variant of thresh (an early sense). Current senses of the noun date from the mid 19th century.

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thrashes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • thrashes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

thrashes synonyms

Meaning bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully:

hit

Meaning strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip:

beat

Meaning beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment:

flog

Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on:

whip

Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a horsewhip:

horsewhip, horsewhipping

Meaning whip (someone) as a punishment:

scourge, scourging

Meaning strike or beat with a whip or stick:

lash

Meaning flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification:

flagellate

Meaning wave or swing wildly:

flail

Meaning beat (someone) with a strip of leather:

strap

Meaning beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment:

birch

Meaning beat with a cane as a punishment:

cane

Meaning fasten with a belt:

belt

Meaning beat or thrash (someone):

leather, lick

Meaning strike or thrash with a bullwhip:

bullwhip, bullwhipping

Meaning form or cause to form a lather:

lather, lathering

Meaning coat with paste:

paste

Meaning a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing:

whale

Meaning change the position, direction, or focus of:

switch

Meaning mark with stripes:

stripe

Meaning flog or lash with a whip:

thong

Meaning hit with a quirt:

quirt

Meaning a punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly:

beating

Meaning a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick:

flogging

Meaning a thrashing or beating with a whip or similar implement:

whipping

Meaning a beating with a stick or whip:

lashing

Meaning flogging or beating, either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification:

flagellation

Meaning a beating with a cane as a punishment:

caning

Meaning belts collectively, or material for belts:

belting

Meaning a punishment in which someone is hit repeatedly:

leathering

Meaning a physical beating:

hiding

Meaning the action or activity of exposing one's skin to the sun in order to achieve a brown or darkened colour:

tanning

Meaning a severe beating or defeat:

pasting

Meaning separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism:

thresh

Meaning struggle or stagger clumsily in mud or water:

flounder

Meaning move or cause to move with a jerk:

jerk

Meaning throw (something) somewhere lightly or casually:

toss

Meaning wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort:

squirm

Meaning make twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body:

writhe

Meaning form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape:

twist

Meaning twist and turn with quick writhing movements:

wriggle

Meaning move or cause to move up and down or from side to side with small rapid movements:

wiggle

Meaning give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement:

twitch

Meaning defeat heavily in a contest:

trounce, trouncing

Meaning defeat and cause to retreat in disorder:

rout

Meaning destroy utterly; obliterate:

annihilate

Meaning compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape:

crush

Meaning defeat completely:

overwhelm

Meaning outwit or get the better of (someone):

best

Meaning get the better of; defeat:

worst

Meaning utterly defeat in a game or contest:

hammer

Meaning hit (someone) hard:

clobber, clobbering

Meaning a unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg):

pound

Meaning defeat utterly:

pulverize

Meaning put (someone) to death by nailing or binding them to a cross, especially as an ancient punishment:

crucify

Meaning overwhelmingly defeat (a player or team):

demolish

Meaning defeat (someone) utterly:

destroy

Meaning hit or beat (someone) repeatedly:

drub

Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:

murder

Meaning inflict a heavy defeat on (a sporting opponent):

massacre

Meaning defeat (an opponent) thoroughly:

slaughter

Meaning make or become flat or flatter:

flatten

Meaning fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel:

tank

Meaning defeat heavily in sport:

stuff

Meaning work (two or more ingredients, typically butter and sugar) together to form a creamy paste:

cream

Meaning varnish (something) with shellac:

shellac, shellacking

Meaning defeat (someone) overwhelmingly in a game or contest, especially by preventing them from scoring at all:

skunk

Meaning shut (a door, window, or lid) forcefully and loudly:

slam

Meaning have (something) as one's own; possess:

own

Meaning a beating:

walloping

Meaning pounding or throbbing in a heavy, continuous way:

thumping

Meaning the action of striking repeatedly with hard blows:

battering

Meaning a heavy defeat or beating:

licking

Meaning a beating; a thrashing:

drubbing

Meaning the action or sound of hammering something:

hammering

Meaning repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something:

pounding

Meaning the action or process of demolishing or being demolished:

demolition

Meaning complete destruction or obliteration:

annihilation

Anagrams of thrashes

harshest

Words that rhyme with thrashes

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