Meaning of thrash In English

• 0 to hit a person or animal hard many times as a punishment:

  • His father used to thrash him when he was a boy.

  • He thrashed the horse with his whip.

• 1 to move from side to side in a violent or uncontrolled way:

  • He was screaming and thrashing around on the floor.

• 2 to defeat someone very easily in a game or sports competition:

  • We thrashed the visiting team 6–0.

• 3 to thresh

• 4 to make a series of wild, violent movements:

  • [ I ] The startled animal thrashed around in the stall.

  • [ T ] He hit me once, and if you hadn’t come along, he would have thrashed me.

  • [ T ] Atlanta thrashed New York, 119-87.