thrashing
noun
thrash·ing ˈthra-shiŋ 
plural thrashings
1
: a severe beating or flogging
If a poacher was taken he was given a thrashing as well as being prosecuted with its consequent jail sentence.
W. Mostyn Thomas
W. Mostyn Thomas"They called her a little blue ragamuffin, father," said Harry, who ran in looking very angry. "But I have given it to them. They won't insult my sister again. I have given them a thrashing they will remember." Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell2
: a dominating defeat of an opponent
… after going 6-5 on a tough road trip that concluded with 9-2 and 12-4 thrashings of the Giants last weekend, they were 57-41 … Phil Taylor
Phil Taylor
Word History
First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1
thrashing 1 of 2
noun
as in pummeling
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- pummeling
- hammering
- pounding
- pummelling
- battering
- bludgeoning
- bashing
- licking
- clobbering
- thump
- blow
- lambasting
- slap
- hit
- punch
- knock
- buffet
- encounter
- meeting
- rap
- contact
- shock
- collision
- jolt
- touch
- impact
- kick
- wallop
- bump
- concussion
- crash
- impingement
- jounce
- slam
- strike
- smash
- jar
thrashing
2 of 2verb
1
as in whipping
to defeat by a large margin the incumbent has been thrashing his opponents for so long that there's never any real contest for the Senate seat Synonyms & Similar Words
- whipping
- beating
- burying
- clobbering
- trouncing
- drubbing
- bombing
- overcoming
- walloping
- smothering
- shellacking
- throwing
- annihilating
- flattening
- whupping
- upsetting
- pasting
- routing
- trimming
- whomping
- dusting
- creaming
- mastering
- skinning
- overwhelming
- tromping
- whapping
- waxing
- sweeping
- topping
- taking
- crushing
- smoking
- whopping
- blowing away
- scoring
- dispatching
- skunking
- conquering
- exceeding
- destroying
- succeeding
- licking
- surpassing
- capping
- subduing
- slaughtering
- eating alive
- snowing under
- running rings around
- vanquishing
- running circles around
- beating the pants off
- finishing
- subjugating
- wiping the ground with
- overpowering
- upending
- surmounting
- wiping the floor with
- overbearing
- overthrowing
- hurdling
- besting
- overmatching
- outdoing
- transcending
- outshining
- outdistancing
- outstripping
- knocking over
- bettering
- eclipsing
- breaking
- excelling
- flourishing
- sinking
- knocking off
- pipping
- overtopping
- outfighting
- worsting
- triumphing (over)
- prevailing (over)
- winning (against)
- acing (out)
- doing in
- nosing out
- edging (out)
2
as in hiding
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible thrashed the poor horse with a riding crop Synonyms & Similar Words
- whipping
- hiding
- slashing
- lashing
- flailing
- slapping
- flicking
- flogging
- switching
- hitting
- mauling
- spanking
- knocking
- cutting
- banging
- punching
- flagellating
- pounding
- licking
- smacking
- birching
- scourging
- horsewhipping
- leathering
- thumping
- whacking
- tanning
- beating
- whaling
- strapping
- batting
- clipping
- clapping
- swiping
- cowhiding
- rawhiding
- pummeling
- caning
- swatting
- hammering
- battering
- cudgeling
- thwacking
- clobbering
- bashing
- clubbing
- cracking
- boxing
- bludgeoning
- drubbing
- pelting
- pummelling
- clouting
- slugging
- walloping
- smiting
- paddling
- whupping
- socking
- bopping
- cudgelling
- mangling
- quirting
- knouting
- pasting
- cuffing
- buffeting
- lamming
- slogging
- belting
- busting
- lambasting
- threshing
- lathering
- roughing
- pistol-whipping
- touching up
- blackjacking
- whapping
- slating
- tromping
- bunging
- whopping
- fustigating
- working over
- lacing
- basting
- fibbing
- belaboring
- pommelling
- pommeling
3
as in pounding
to strike repeatedly the tree branches thrashed the sides of the house as the storm continued to rage Synonyms & Similar Words
- pounding
- lashing
- licking
- whipping
- beating
- hiding
- battering
- thumping
- slapping
- pelting
- knocking
- attacking
- mauling
- smashing
- pummeling
- slamming
- hitting
- punching
- spanking
- doing
- hammering
- bashing
- assaulting
- bludgeoning
- drubbing
- batting
- chopping
- pummelling
- paddling
- flogging
- smacking
- storming
- walloping
- whacking
- clubbing
- raiding
- buffeting
- slogging
- whupping
- belting
- switching
- lambasting
- threshing
- lathering
- tanning
- boxing
- whapping
- slating
- currying
- whaling
- tromping
- punching out
- birching
- whopping
- working over
- swiping
- thwacking
- cracking
- clobbering
- fibbing
- lacing
- basting
- rushing
- belaboring
- swatting
- wounding
- pommelling
- beating up on
- pommeling
- pasting
- strapping
- socking
- bunging up
- assailing
- cuffing
- clouting
- cudgeling
- lamming
- whomping
- caning
- flagellating
- cudgelling
- whamming
- busting
- lacerating
- scourging
- roughing (up)
- messing (up)
- leathering
- besetting
- mangling
- goring
- mutilating
- laying on
- horsewhipping
- maiming
- pistol-whipping
- blackjacking
- cowhiding
- rawhiding
- fustigating
- descending (on or upon)
- pouncing (on or upon)
- jumping (on)
4
as in tossing
to make jerky or restless movements in obvious pain, the wounded soldier thrashed about his cot Synonyms & Similar Words
- tossing
- squirming
- twitching
- jerking
- writhing
- fidgeting
- shaking
- fiddling
- twisting
- shivering
- trembling
- wiggling
- jigging
- wriggling
- shuddering
- quivering
- jiggling
- threshing
- fluttering
- squiggling
- quaking
- flitting
- pacing
- twittering
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- resting
- unwinding
- relaxing
- calming (down)
- stilling