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• n  a sound defeat
• n  the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
• v  give a thrashing to; beat hard
• v  move or stir about violently
• v  dance the slam dance
• v  beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
• v  move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
  The system is thrashing again!
• v  beat the seeds out of a grain
• v  beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

• Emergency-room doctors took one look at the thrashing teenager, strapped her to a gurney and began administering sedatives.
• The autobots moved slowly and haltingly, their computer brains thrashing furiously to interpret incoming visual data.
• He's thrashing a whole system of media that people had been thrashing for a long time.

• walloping
• debacle
• drubbing
• slaughter
• trouncing
• whipping
• beating
• licking
• lacing
• whacking
• thrash
• thresh
• lam
• flail
• convulse
• thresh about
• thrash about
• slash
• toss
• jactitate
• slam dance
• slam
• mosh
• cream
• bat
• clobber
• drub
• lick

News & Articles

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• First-place Cardinals bash stumbling Mets
  Allen Craig capped a five-run fifth inning with a three-run homer, David Freese extended his hitting streak to 20 games and Michael Wacha earned his first major league victory in the St. Louis Cardinals' 9-2 thrashing of the New York Mets at Citi Field.        
  June 12, 2013 - Hartford Courant
• Indians rally past Midwest City Outlaws, 5-4
  Even the mighty Midwest City Outlaws could not keep the Bartlesville Doenges Ford Indians down for long on a sweltering Tuesday night at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium. After suffering a 13-2 thrashing in the first game Tuesday, the Indians regrouped and lashed back to win the nightcap, 5-4, in nine innings, in American Legion baseball Majors (19-and-under) action.
  June 12, 2013 - Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
• 2013 NBA Finals: Miami Heat Still in Trouble Despite Game 2 Win
  It seems almost crazy to find fault in the Miami Heat after their 103-84 thrashing of the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night. However, two very important things must be taken away. As impressive as the Heat looked in victory, the fact remains that they lost home-court advantage in the series. Although they would have preferred to win both games, the Spurs did what they ...
  June 10, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Oguchi Onyewu in The Associated Press
  I am going to put this out there right now. At night, I kill time by thrashing Jozy Altidore and Maurice Edu in FIFA's 2010,defender Oguchi Onyewu said. "You can put that in the headlines. They can't compete with me."
• Alan Hansen in Malaysia Star
  They may have dropped points at home to Stoke but winning the title is not all about thrashing teams every week but how teams respond to setbacks,said Hansen. "That's the big test and from the Liverpool performances so far this season, the...
• Rob Enderle in Inquirer.net
  Microsoft has to leverage its strengths; right now it is thrashing a bit,Enderle said. "The company is on its own. The training wheels are off. It needs a way to point itself in the right direction and peddle like hell."