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noun
- 1. a heavy defeat of a sporting opponent: "they confirmed their greatness today with a thrashing of Melbourne" Similar
- 2. an act of physically beating someone; a beating: "a sound thrashing might teach the individual to refrain from complaining" Similar
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The meaning of THRASHING is a severe beating or flogging. How to use thrashing in a sentence.
an occasion when someone defeats someone else very easily in a game, competition, or election: The team was on the receiving end of a six-goal thrashing recently. The ruling party is expecting a thrashing in the elections to the upper house of parliament this weekend.
Definition of thrashing noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If one player or team gives another one a thrashing, they defeat them easily or by a large score. She dropped only eight points in the 43-minute thrashing of the former champion. American English : thrashing / ˈθræʃɪŋ /
Definitions of thrashing. noun. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows. synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking. see more. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment. beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation.
1. a physical assault; flogging. 2. a convincing defeat: a 5–1 thrashing. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Forms. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the noun thrashing mean? There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun thrashing, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
THRASHING meaning: 1. a very easy win against someone: 2. the act of hitting a person or animal several times as a…. Learn more.
thrash. (θræʃ ) Word forms: thrashes , thrashing , thrashed. 1. verb. If one player or team thrashes another in a game or contest, they defeat them easily or by a large score. [informal] The team thrashed their opponents 5-nil. [V n amount] [Also VERB noun] 2. verb. If you thrash someone, you hit them several times as a punishment.
the act of a person or thing that thrashes. a pile or quantity of threshed grain or the grain threshed at one time. thrashing. / ˈθræʃɪŋ / noun. a physical assault; flogging. a convincing defeat. a 5–1 thrashing.
