Definizione monolingua

thrash

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)

1. To beat mercilessly.
2. To defeat utterly.
   • 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, BBC:

     Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.

3. To thresh.
4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail.
5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
6. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

thrash (uncountable)

1. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
   • 1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams,

     Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.

   • 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,

     As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.

2. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

Definizione dizionario thrash

armeggiare

bastonare

battere

battito continuo

colpire

duellare

fervere

frullare

gettare a terra

percuotere

picchiare

picchiarsi

pulsare

sbaragliare

sbatacchiare

sbattere

sbattersene

scalcagnare

sconfiggere

stravincere

trebbiare

vibrare

Altri significati:

to beat mercilessly

A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

(computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

To defeat utterly.

flutter kick (swimming)

To move about wildly or violently; to flail.

To thresh.

(music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

(to) strike

To beat mercilessly.