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thrash

/θɹæʃ/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To beat mercilessly.
  2. To defeat utterly.
  3. To thresh.
  4. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  5. To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  6. In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  7. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  8. The roar and smoke of a particularly powerful diesel engine.
  9. Ellipsis of thrash metal.
  10. A surname.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.

  1. þreskja(Old Norse)→
  2. dreskan(Old High German)→
  3. *þreskaną(gem-pro)→
  4. þrescan(ang)→
  5. thrasshen(Middle English)→
  6. *terh₁-(ine-pro)→
  7. thrash (English)
  8. Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog

Related words

*terh₁-(ine-pro)thrasshen(Middle English)þrescan(ang)*þreskaną(gem-pro)dreskan(Old High German)þreskja(Old Norse)thrash(Dutch)

Descendant words

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