thrash
/θɹæʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- Thrash metal
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
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