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thrash

verb
  1. To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: flail, thresh. See attack, strike
  2. 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
  3. To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide 2, lash, whip. Informal: trim. Slang: lay into, lick. See attack, reward
  4. To swing about or strike at wildly: flail, thresh, toss. Idiom: toss and turn. See attack, move, strike
  5. 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: rap 3. Idiom: go into a huddle. See words

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