Usually means: Violently swings or beats something.
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  1. thrashes: Merriam-Webster
  2. thrashes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thrashes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Thrashes, thrashes: Wordnik
  5. thrashes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Thrashes, thrashes: Wiktionary
  7. thrashes: Dictionary.com
  8. thrashes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. thrashes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thrashes: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See thrash as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thrash)

verb:  To beat mercilessly.
verb:  To defeat utterly.
verb:  To thresh.
verb:  To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
verb:  (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
verb:  (computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
noun:  (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (music, uncountable) Ellipsis of thrash metal. [A heavy and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, alternate picking, and extended guitar solos, and often having aggressive lyrics.]
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