Meaning of "thrash" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD THRASH

Old English threscan; related to Old High German dreskan, Old Norse thriskja.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF THRASH

thrash  [θræʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THRASH

Thrash is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb thrash in English.

WHAT DOES THRASH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thrash

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Definition of thrash in the English dictionary

The first definition of thrash in the dictionary is to beat soundly, as with a whip or stick. Other definition of thrash is to defeat totally; overwhelm. Thrash is also to beat or plunge about in a wild manner.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO THRASH

PRESENT

Present

I thrash

you thrash

he/she/it thrashes

we thrash

you thrash

they thrash

Present continuous

I am thrashing

you are thrashing

he/she/it is thrashing

we are thrashing

you are thrashing

they are thrashing

Present perfect

I have thrashed

you have thrashed

he/she/it has thrashed

we have thrashed

you have thrashed

they have thrashed

Present perfect continuous

I have been thrashing

you have been thrashing

he/she/it has been thrashing

we have been thrashing

you have been thrashing

they have been thrashing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I thrashed

you thrashed

he/she/it thrashed

we thrashed

you thrashed

they thrashed

Past continuous

I was thrashing

you were thrashing

he/she/it was thrashing

we were thrashing

you were thrashing

they were thrashing

Past perfect

I had thrashed

you had thrashed

he/she/it had thrashed

we had thrashed

you had thrashed

they had thrashed

Past perfect continuous

I had been thrashing

you had been thrashing

he/she/it had been thrashing

we had been thrashing

you had been thrashing

they had been thrashing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will thrash

you will thrash

he/she/it will thrash

we will thrash

you will thrash

they will thrash

Future continuous

I will be thrashing

you will be thrashing

he/she/it will be thrashing

we will be thrashing

you will be thrashing

they will be thrashing

Future perfect

I will have thrashed

you will have thrashed

he/she/it will have thrashed

we will have thrashed

you will have thrashed

they will have thrashed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been thrashing

you will have been thrashing

he/she/it will have been thrashing

we will have been thrashing

you will have been thrashing

they will have been thrashing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would thrash

you would thrash

he/she/it would thrash

we would thrash

you would thrash

they would thrash

Conditional continuous

I would be thrashing

you would be thrashing

he/she/it would be thrashing

we would be thrashing

you would be thrashing

they would be thrashing

Conditional perfect

I would have thrash

you would have thrash

he/she/it would have thrash

we would have thrash

you would have thrash

they would have thrash

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been thrashing

you would have been thrashing

he/she/it would have been thrashing

we would have been thrashing

you would have been thrashing

they would have been thrashing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you thrash
we let´s thrash
you thrash

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to thrash

Past participle

thrashed

Present Participle

thrashing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «THRASH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «thrash» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of thrash

beat · beat someone hollow · belt · birch · cane · clobber · crush · defeat · drub · flagellate · flail · flog · hammer · heave · hide · horsewhip · jerk · leather · lick · make mincemeat of · maul · overwhelm · paste · plunge · rout · run rings around · scourge · slaughter · spank · squirm · stuff · tan · tank · thresh · toss · trounce · wallop · whip · writhe

TRANSLATION OF THRASH

Find out the translation of thrash to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of thrash from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thrash» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: > 轻松击败
• Translator English - Spanish: dar una paliza a
• English: thrash
• Translator English - Hindi: पिटाई
• Translator English - Arabic: توصل
• Translator English - Russian: трэш
• Translator English - Portuguese: surrar
• Translator English - Bengali: ছেঁচা
• Translator English - French: battre à plate couture
• Translator English - Malay: sampah
• Translator English - German: vernichtend schlagen
• Translator English - Japanese: 打ち負かす
• Translator English - Korean: 완파하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Thrash
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đánh
• Translator English - Tamil: த்ரேஸ்
• Translator English - Marathi: झोडपणे
• Translator English - Turkish: kıvranmak
• Translator English - Italian: stracciare
• Translator English - Polish: thrash
• Translator English - Ukrainian: треш
• Translator English - Romanian: thrash
• Translator English - Greek: thrash
• Translator English - Afrikaans: thrash
• Translator English - Swedish: thrash
• Translator English - Norwegian: thrash

3 QUOTES WITH «THRASH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word thrash.

1

Daniel Dennett

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

2

Denene Millner

It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

3

Graham Russell

I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THRASH»

Discover the use of thrash in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thrash and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Murder in the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash ...

Featuring hundreds of unseen live and candid color and black-and-white photographs, Murder in the Front Row captures the wild-eyed zeal and drive that made Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth into legends, with over 100 million combined records ...

Brian Lew, Harald Oimonen, 2012

Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered

An exhibition catalog presenting all 188 prints artist Dox Thrash is known to have made showcases his use of the carborundum process and his mastery of various other methods of printmaking such as etching, aquatint, lithography, and woodcut ...

John W. Ittmann, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001

Speed and Thrash Metal Guitar Method

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from ...

Troy Stetina, Tony Burton, 1991

Thrash Crossword Puzzle Attack ... But Whose Buying?

HOPEFULLY IT HAS INSPIRED YOU, IF NOT FORCED YOU IN ORDER TO FINISH THE PUZZLES, TO LOOK UP THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THESE GREAT THRASH BANDS. THE NEXT STEP IS TO PULL THEIR ALBUMS OUT OF ...

Aaron Joy, 2012

Damage Incorporated: Metallica and the Production of Musical ...

The understanding of Metallica (or Slayer, or the other 1983 bands) as representative of something called thrash metal took place after [(17/ 25/11 14/! had come out. By many accounts, thrash metal was not a term used to describe the 1983 ...

Glenn Pillsbury, 2013

Black Confederates

Today he is claimed in the military plot of Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery.12 Returning to Mr. Thrash: His parents, natives of Africa, were brought from Jamaica to Virginia, where Mark Thrash was born on Dr. Christopher Thrash's plantation.

Segars, J.H.

Supercontemplations

John O'Loughlin. THRASH thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise BRUISE ...

John O'Loughlin, 2010

Contemplative Abstracts

John O'Loughlin. THRASH thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash thrash bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise bruise BRUISE ...

John O'Loughlin, 2011

A to Z of Thrash Metal

This book looks at the big four of Thrash Metal - Metallica, Megadeath, Anthrax and Slayer - all documented in the greatest possible detail with full, up to the minute histories, exclusive photos and global discographies, as well as tons of ...

‎2002

Indicted!: The People Vs the Medical & Drug Cartel

215, 216. 48. Thrash, Stress, ibid, p. 164: 49. Thrash, Stress, ibid, p. 80. 50. Thrash, Diabetes, ibid, p. 81. 51. Thrash, Diabetes, ibid, p. 80. 52. Thrash, Diabetes, ibid, p. 74. 53. Thrash, Diabetes, ibid, p. 81. 54. Thrash, Diabetes, ibid, p. 81. 55.

James Henderson, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THRASH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thrash is used in the context of the following news items.

Football - Aberdeen thrash Brechin

Football - Aberdeen thrash Brechin. Aberdeen hit eight goals in their first pre-season friendly as they thrashed Brechin at Glebe Park. 24 June 2015 21:59 PA ... «Yahoo Eurosport UK, Jun 15»

10 Greatest Thrash Metal Debut Albums Of All Time

On June 12, 1985, Megadeth stunned hard rock fans everywhere with their maiden long-playing weapon of thrash destruction, Killing Is My Business… and ... «VH1, Jun 15»

Thrash maintains status quo to close out spring training

As long as he is running the Colleyville Heritage football program, interim head coach Judd Thrash wanted to make the final two weeks of the spring football ... «Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 15»

SRC, lawmakers to 'thrash out' public wage policy Monday

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17 -The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) will meet Members of Parliament in Naivasha on Monday and Tuesday to ... «Capital FM Kenya, May 15»

Football: Barton Rovers thrash Biggleswade Town to win …

Barton Rovers lifted the Bedfordshire Senior Cup after thrashing Biggleswade Town 4-0 in the final at Kenilworth Road last night. Rovers, beaten finalists in the ... «Bedfordshire News, May 15»

Testament delivers the gospel of thrash metal

Legacy was actually the name the band went by before changing it to Testament. At the time, thrash metal was in full swing with a few bands, including Metallica, ... «Knoxville News Sentinel, Apr 15»

KTVU.com talks to thrash-metal legends Chuck Billy and Steve …

OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) -- This past week, KTVU got a chance to speak with two major figures from the Bay Area's influential thrash-metal scene when ... «KTVU San Francisco, Mar 15»

Pint-sized thrash metal band Alien Weaponry makes waves

Brothers Lewis and Henry de Jong and mate Ethan Trembath together form Alien Weaponry, a thrash metal band ready to move beyond their parents' rented ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»

TESTAMENT And EXODUS To Join Forces For 'Dark Roots Of …

San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal legends TESTAMENT and EXODUS will join forces for the "Dark Roots Of Thrash II" tour. The trek will conquer North ... «BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Feb 15»

Why Thrash Metal Now?

When Thrash metal emerged in the 1980's it was a perfect storm of aesthetics, politics, tired 1960's ideology, and the emergence of a shameless, oil based, ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»