Defenition of the word thrashing

• Defenition of the word thrashing

  • the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
  • (especially of limbs or tail) waving or swinging about vigorously; "trying to drive insects away with his flailing arms"; "the aligator's thrashing tail"
  • a sound defeat

Synonyms for the word thrashing

• • battering
  • beating
  • debacle
  • defeat
  • drubbing
  • flailing
  • flogging
  • pasting
  • slaughter
  • spanking
  • trouncing
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whipping

Similar words in the thrashing

• • moving
  • thrashing
  • thrashing's

Hyponyms for the word thrashing

• • flagellation
  • flogging
  • lashing
  • tanning
  • whipping

Hypernyms for the word thrashing

• • corporal punishment
  • defeat
  • licking

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