Definitions for: Thrashing


[n] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
[n] a sound defeat
[adj] (especially of limbs or tail) waving or swinging about vigorously; "trying to drive insects away with his flailing arms"; "the aligator's thrashing tail"



Webster (1913) Definition: Thrash"ing,
a. & n. from Thrash, v.

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.

Synonyms: beating, debacle, drubbing, drubbing, flailing, lacing, moving, slaughter, trouncing, trouncing, walloping, whacking, whipping

See Also: corporal punishment, defeat, flagellation, flogging, lashing, licking, tanning, whipping

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