thrash
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Synonyms for thrash
Synonyms: Verb
annihilate, blow away, bomb, bury, clobber, cream, drub, dust, flatten, paste, rout, shellac, skin, skunk, smoke [slang], smother, snow under, trim, tromp, trounce, wallop, wax [slang], whip, whomp, whop (or whap), whup
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Examples of thrash in a Sentence
Verb
He thrashed me with his belt. The team thrashed them last week. Something was thrashing wildly in the water. She thrashed around in her sleep.Noun
The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
But the 8-2 thrashing at Old Trafford on 28 August 2011 was another level above even that and still lives strong in the memory. — SI.com, "Man Utd 8-2 Arsenal: When an Ashley Young Brace & Wayne Rooney Hat-Trick Saw the Gunners Humiliated," 28 Aug. 2019 The approximately two-minute video shows a shark thrashing back and forth and a pool of blood near the shore. — Shafaq Patel, BostonGlobe.com, "Video shows shark attacking seal close to Nauset Beach," 25 Aug. 2019 The worms, which are often larger than other earthworms and have a distinctive pale or white collar that extends around their bodies, are easily recognizable by appearance as well as by their thrashing behavior. — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, "Jumping worms are the latest invasive species to hit Illinois. In Chicago, they’re basically everywhere.," 14 Aug. 2019 The young man had more or less stopped thrashing and was lying limply beneath the brothers’ substantial behinds. — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, "The Alps," 22 July 2019 Their 4-0 humbling of Crystal Palace stands out, with the Berliners thrashing Eichstatt in similar fashion on Sunday to book their place in the next round of the cup. — SI.com, "Bayern Munich vs Hertha Berlin Preview: Where to Watch, Live Stream, Kick Off Time & Team News," 13 Aug. 2019 The policeman had thrashed him with a metal pipe, dunked his head in a drum of water and then, after the man had died, claimed he had been beaten by another prisoner, who was initially charged with the murder. — The Economist, "Learn the law, hope for freedom," 4 July 2019 Mexico is on to the Gold Cup quarterfinals as well after thrashing a group that included Canada, Cuba and Martinique, outscoring them 13-3 combined. — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, "Soccer! U.S.-France is the match everyone was waiting for," 25 June 2019 As California lawmakers weigh a bill that could change the ride-hail drivers status, Uber, Lyft, labor leaders and government officials have been thrashing out ideas in formal talks, but drivers have not been present. — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, "Bay Briefing: How Apollo 11 capsule photos ended up in SF man’s house," 19 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The record marks a thrash-metal departure from the band’s psych-rock roots, but its manic energy and gut-punch grit amount to a sound unmistakably all King Gizz’s own. — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, "Best live music around L.A.: Carly Rae Jepsen, a mammoth hip-hop festival and more," 6 Aug. 2019 Slayer’s grizzled lead vocalist and bassist asserted his laryngeal dominance over some 14,000 fans at the Austin360 Amphitheater on Wednesday night (June 20), the final stop on the first leg of the thrash titans’ hefty farewell tour. — Bryan Rolli, Billboard, "Slayer Close Out First Leg of Farewell Tour with Blistering, Career-Spanning Austin Performance," 21 June 2018 His first band to achieve commercial success, Pantera, practically established the groove metal subgenre with 1990’s Cowboys From Hell, which at its core meant taking thrash metal rhythms and playing them midtempo. — Bram Teitelman, Billboard, "10 of Vinnie Paul's Hardest-Rocking Songs, From Pantera's Picks to Hellyeah's Hits," 23 June 2018 Primus and Mastodon are both bands that come from the world of heavy metal but resist categorization: The former blends it with prog rock and funk; the latter skews toward thrash and hard core. — New York Times, "13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend," 31 May 2018 Both of those publications were fairly white and suburban; their music tastes were punk rock leaning into thrash metal. — Ron Hart, Billboard, "Public Enemy Talks 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' on Its 30th Anniversary," 30 June 2018 And the Charlotte stop of thrash-metal legend Slayer’s Final Tour fell squarely in the latter column last Thursday at PNC Music Pavilion. — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, "More an event than an everyday concert, Slayer’s Final Tour roars through Charlotte," 18 June 2018 Then there’s 60-year-old R&B singer Anita Baker, the 37-year-old thrash-metal band Slayer, whose farewell tour kicks off Thursday at San Diego’s Valley View Casino Center, and more. — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Coda? Elton John, Slayer, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Ozzy Osbourne head growing list of 2018 farewell tours," 5 May 2018 Members of the Native Howl, from Leonard in northeast Oakland County, blend the precision and melodicism of bluegrass with the intense tempo and energy of thrash metal. — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit music: Magic Bag hosts Native Howl, Gasoline Gypsies; War & Treaty at Otus Supply," 31 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'thrash.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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