# thrash
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /θɹæʃ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æʃ

### Verb

thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
* To beat mercilessly.
** 1979 November 30, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”, in The Wall‎, performed by Pink Floyd:But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.
** 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:The rural Midland & Great Northern backwaters from Norfolk to Leicester closed in February 1959 before they could be used there, and thrashing them on the GN main line instead resulted in a memorably poor ride and rattling windows, caused by vibration from their engines and suspect suspension.
* To defeat utterly.
** 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in 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.
* To thresh.
* To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
** c. 1690, Juvenal, “The Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, in John Dryden, transl., John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, published 1987, page 364:I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
** 2023, Britney Spears, The Woman in Me‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:As performers, we girls have our hair. That's the real thing guys want to see. They love to see the long hair move. They want you to thrash it.
* (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
* (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

#### Derived terms

* thrash about
* thrashel
* thrasher
* thrash out

#### Translations

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### Noun

thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
* (countable) 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.
** 2016, Clark Nida, The Titan Kiss:Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.
* (music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal.

#### Derived terms

* neo-thrash

#### References

* (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

### Anagrams

* Harths, harths

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English thrash.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrɛʃ/ (occasionally pronounced as [ˈθɹɛʃ])
* Hyphenation: thrash

### Noun

thrash m (uncountable)
* (music) thrash metal, thrash
    Synonym: thrashmetal

## Scots
### Noun

thrash
* rush

#### Alternative forms

* thresh

#### References

* Chambers 1908.