thrash suggests vigorous, abrupt, violent movement.
an infant thrashing his arms about
Example Sentences
Verb He thrashed me with his belt. The team thrashed them last week. Something was thrashing wildly in the water. She thrashed around in her sleep. Noun The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.
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Verb
Brandon then continues to thrash while being pinned against the gravel, and an officer repeatedly tells him to stop. Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022 Other prevention measures include to check fishing bait before buying it and staying away from those that thrash strongly. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2022 Managers in the three lower basin states are now gearing up to thrash out a new compact by 2026.San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022 Was that like for you to be thrashed around or thrash yourself around in that way? Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2022 The two parties signaled a willingness to thrash out the details of a funding strategy for the pipeline in coming days. Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2022 Metallica came out of—helped invent—thrash metal: speed, intricacy, overload. James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2022 Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man.Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022 Hoping to avoid that fate, the league set a 5 p.m. Eastern deadline on Tuesday to thrash out an agreement. Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2022
Noun
Why are some tubeless installs easy and others a multi-hour thrash session punctuated by merchant-marine levels of cursing? Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 28 July 2020 The thrash of hardcore was still a few years down the pike.New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022 On a remote dirt road in northwest China’s Qinghai Plateau, a four-piece band dressed in hazmat suits and gas masks launches into a thrash metal number about the dangers of burning trash. Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 Even Ministry’s later dated political junk food thrash is better than this! Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022 The thrash metal hit was featured in the two-hour finale of the show, as part of Eddie Munson's masterful plan to distract the deadly bats protecting the lair of evil villain Vecna. Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2022 Anthrax were part of the thrash-metal Big Four, alongside Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022 Not only did the band founded in 1984 by Max and Iggor Cavalera raise the profile of Brazil, where the brothers were born, but those albums continue to influence thrash and death metal. Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022 Slayer’s Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman Scarier and more brutal than the rest of thrash’s Big Four put together. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 30 Jan. 2022 See More