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thrashingverbpresent participle of thrash to defeat by a large marginthe incumbent has been thrashing his opponents for so long that there's never any real contest for the Senate seat annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), smothering, snowing under, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing(slang), whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, running circles around(or running rings around), wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexiblethrashed the poor horse with a riding crop birching, cowhiding, flagellating, flailing, flogging, hiding, horsewhipping, lashing, leathering, rawhiding, scourging, slashing, switching, tanning, whaling, whipping knouting, quirting, strappingcuttingflicking, touching upblackjacking, caning, clubbing, cudgeling(or cudgelling), fustigatingpistol-whippingbanging, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cuffing, hitting, knocking, lamming, pasting, punching, slapping, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, spanking, swatting, swiping, thwacking, walloping, whackingbashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging, drubbing, fibbing(British), hammering, lacing, lambasting, lathering, licking, mangling, mauling, paddling, pelting, pommeling(or pommelling), pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), roughing, slating, slogging, threshing, thumping, tromping, whopping(or whapping), whupping, working over to strike repeatedlythe tree branches thrashed the sides of the house as the storm continued to rage bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing(British), flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling(or pommelling), pounding, pummeling(also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping(or whapping), whupping, working over assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling(or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whompingblackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strappinggoring, lacerating, woundingmaiming, mangling, mutilating beating up on to make jerky or restless movementsin obvious pain, the wounded soldier thrashed about his cot fiddling, fidgeting, jerking, jigging, jiggling, squiggling, squirming, threshing, tossing, twisting, twitching, wiggling, wriggling, writhing flitting, fluttering, twitteringquaking, quivering, shaking, shivering, shuddering, tremblingpacing relaxing, resting, unwindingcalming (down), stilling in 1799 |