Usually means: Vigorously beat or hit something.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word thrash:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thrash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thrash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thrash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thrash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thrash, thrash: Wordnik
  7. thrash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Thrash, thrash: Wiktionary
  9. thrash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thrash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thrash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thrash: Dictionary.com
  13. thrash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thrash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thrash (computer science), Thrash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thrash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thrash: Rhymezone
  18. thrash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. thrash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. thrash: Free Dictionary
  21. thrash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Thrash, thrash: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. thrash: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thrash (disambiguation), thrash: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrash: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. thrash: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Thrash (disambiguation), thrash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THRASH: Acronym Finder
  2. thrash: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrash, thrash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. thrash: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See thrashed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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