Synonyms for thrash
Definitions
- v. 1
To beat mercilessly.
- v. 2
To defeat utterly.
- v. 3
To thresh.
- v. 4
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
Related words
- Word family
- thrashel thrasher thrashcore
- Phrases
- thrash about thrash out
Forms
- Past participle
- thrashed
e.g. thrashed → beaten, licked, flogged, mauled…
Example sentences
- rag My mother uses my father's old short as a dust rag.
- maul Chimpanzees have been known to maul their owners.
- clobber Aren't you hot with all that clobber on?
- trounce He would surely trounce them all, on account of being a professional.
- murder You don't have an alibi for the day of the murder.
- rape Pietro tried to rape Melissa in a public building.
By length
- 3 letters
- bat1, rag1, lam1
- 4 letters
- beat1, rape1, slam1, whip1, toss1, lick1, lash1, maul1, pelt1, flog1, mosh1, drub1
- 5 letters
- cream1, pound1, slash1, whack1, spank1, flail1, baste1
- 6 letters
- murder2, defeat2, batter2, wallop2, pommel2, cudgel2, thresh1, thwack
- 7 letters
- scourge1, clobber2, trounce1, lambast, belabor3
- 8 letters
- convulse, belabour, lamblast
- 9 letters
- jactitate, fustigate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (murder2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rosser
- Español
- trillar
- Deutsch
- dreschen
- Català
- apallissar