Thrashing










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Thrashing \Thrash"ing\,
a. & n. from Thrash, v.
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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.
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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.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
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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]
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thrashing [θræʃiŋ]
Dreschen; Flattern; prügelnd; Überlastung

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Dreschen n
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Flattern n; Überlastung f
thrashing

prügelnd
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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



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