| 单词 | thrash |
| 释义 | thrash (once / 969 pages) 1vn 2v 3v When you thrash someone, you beat them — literally, with your fists, or figuratively, by winning a game or competition. You can describe your game plan for a chess match this way: "I plan to thrash that show-off in just ten moves." You can also threaten to physically thrash someone, like a neighborhood bully who's been known to thrash much smaller kids. Thrash was originally a sixteenth-century variation on the word thresh, which means to separate grain from wheat or another plant by beating it. WORD FAMILYthrash: thrashed, thrasher, thrashes, thrashing+/thrasher: thrashers/thrashing: thrashings USAGE EXAMPLESThe turbo-four uses an iron engine block, as opposed to aluminum, which helps knock down engine noise and thrash. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) “It was almost breathtaking,” he said of that Fiesta Bowl scene when Utah thrashed Pitt, 35-7. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) An overseas thrashing usually sends English cricket into a period of introspection. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1v give a thrashing to; beat hard Syn|Hyper flail, lam, thresh bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight beat, beat up, work over give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression 2v beat the seeds out of a grain Syn|Hyper thresh beat hit repeatedly 3v beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight Syn|Hyper bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick flail, lam, thresh give a thrashing to; beat hard beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict 4v move or stir about violently The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed Syn|Hypo|Hyper convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss whip thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash agitate, shake move or cause to move back and forth 5v beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all Hyper beat, pound, thump move rhythmically 6n a swimming kick used while treading water 2Hyper swimming kick a movement of the legs in swimming v dance the slam dance 3Syn|Hyper mosh, slam, slam dance dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance v move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation The system is thrashing again! Hyper swap move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science |
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