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thrash·ing

(thrăsh′ĭng)

A severe beating.

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thrashing

(ˈθræʃɪŋ)

1. a physical assault; flogging

2. a convincing defeat: a 5–1 thrashing.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

thrash•ing

(ˈθræʃ ɪŋ)

n.

a flogging; whipping.

[1350–1400]

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Noun	1.	thrashing - a sound defeat drubbing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, slaughter, debacle defeat, licking - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
	2.	thrashing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, trouncing, lacing corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime flogging, lashing, whipping, flagellation, tanning - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment flagellation - beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation

thrashing

noun

1. defeat, beating, hammering (informal), hiding (informal), pasting (slang), rout, mauling, trouncing, drubbing She dropped only 8 points in her thrashing of the former champion.

2. beating, hiding (informal), belting (informal), whipping, tanning (slang), lashing, caning, pasting (slang), flogging, drubbing, chastisement She knew if she was caught she would get a thrashing.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

thrashing

noun

1. A punishment dealt with blows or lashes:

beating, flogging, hiding, lashing, whipping.

Informal: trimming.

Slang: licking.

2. The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated:

beating, defeat, drubbing, overthrow, rout, vanquishment.

Informal: massacre, trimming, whipping.

Slang: dusting, licking.

Translations

ضَرْبٌ بالعَصا

výprask

Dresche Prügel Schmiere

elverés

hÿîing, flenging

bastonatura battuta sconfitta

dayak

痛打

thrashing

[ˈθræʃɪŋ] N → zurra f, paliza f
to give sb a thrashing (lit) (= beat) → zurrar a algn, dar una paliza a algn (Sport) (= defeat) → dar una paliza a algn, cascar a algn

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

thrashing

[ˈθræʃɪŋ] n

(= hiding) → raclée f
to give sb a thrashing (= hit) → donner une bonne raclée à qn

(= defeat) → raclée f
to give sb a thrashing (= defeat) → donner une raclée à qn , donner une bonne raclée à qn

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

thrashing

(= beating) → Prügel pl, → Schläge pl, → Dresche f (inf); to give somebody a good thrashing → jdm eine ordentliche Tracht Prügel verpassen

(Sport inf) → komplette Niederlage; to give somebody a thrashing → jdn vernichtend schlagen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

thrashing

[ˈθræʃɪŋ] n to give sb a thrashing (beat) → picchiare qn di santa ragione (Sport) (fam) (defeat) → dare una batosta a qn

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

thrash

(θrӕʃ) verb

1. to strike with blows. The child was soundly thrashed.

2. to move about violently. The wounded animal thrashed about/around on the ground.

3. to defeat easily, by a large margin. Our team was thrashed eighteen-nil.

ˈthrashing noun

a physical beating. He needs a good thrashing!

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I have given them a thrashing they will remember; a set of cowardly, rascally `orange' blackguards."

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"It is good for me, bad for another traveler, and for himself it's unavoidable, because he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses.

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He met Robert one day talking to the girl, or walking with her, or bathing with her, or carrying her basket--I don't remember what;--and he became so insulting and abusive that Robert gave him a thrashing on the spot that has kept him comparatively in order for a good while.

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When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from thrashing around, famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of the animals; and crippled with rheumatism.

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Athos counseled D'Artagnan to dismiss the fellow; Porthos was of opinion that he should give him a good thrashing first; and Aramis contended that a master should never attend to anything but the civilities paid to him.

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Yesterday he even had some trouble with the police because of his thrashing the steward of these buildings.

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There's nothing for it but a good sound thrashing." He paused to shake hands with the master, which Holmes does also, and then prepares to leave.

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"He shall have the finest thrashing ever elephant received.

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He sent for the carpenter, who, according to his orders, ought to have been at work at the thrashing machine.

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"That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and it is not any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me entertain more charitable thoughts."

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Suddenly we heard, at a little distance to our right and partly in front, a noise as of some animal thrashing about in the bushes, which we could see were violently agitated.

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Then and there they gave each other a sound thrashing.

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