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thrash
verb
- To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: flail, thresh. See attack, strike
- To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thresh. Informal: lambaste. Slang: clobber. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strike
- To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide2, lash, whip. Informal: trim. Slang: lay into, lick. See attack, reward
- To swing about or strike at wildly: flail, thresh, toss. Idiom: toss and turn. See attack, move, strike
- To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, trounce, vanquish. Informal: massacre, wallop. Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See win
phrasal verb
thrash out or over- To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about: bandy (about), discuss, moot, talk over, thresh out or over, toss around. Informal: hash (over), kick around, knock about or around. Slang: rap3. Idiom: go into a huddle. See words
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