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# thrash

«thrash» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move arms, legs or body around wildly and violently…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (thrash, thrashes, thrashed, thrashing); noun (a thrash — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To thrash is to move arms, legs or body around wildly and violently, like a fish thrashing on a hook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#m1)

2) To thrash a team is to beat them easily by a lot (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#m2)

3) To thrash someone is to beat or hit them very hard many times, which is cruel and wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#m3)

4) «Thrash out» means to talk about a problem until you solve it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In sports talk, «We thrashed them 6-0» means we won by a lot. In swimming and water safety, a person thrashing in water may be drowning: shout for a lifeguard and throw something that floats rather than jumping in. In stories, a trapped animal or a monster thrashes about. In history, children were once thrashed at school; today hitting children is wrong.

### examples

- The fish thrashed about on the riverbank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x1)
- Our team thrashed theirs 7 to 1. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x2)
- The baby thrashed her arms and legs in the bath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x3)
- Someone thrashing in deep water may need help — call a lifeguard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x4)
- The crocodile thrashed its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x5)
- The class thrashed out the rules for the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x6)
- The wind made the branches thrash against the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: «thrashed»; third person «thrashes». «Thrash» (move wildly, beat) is different from «thresh» (separate grain from wheat) and «trash» (rubbish). In sports scores, «thrashed» means a big difference between the scores.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thrash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.