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| thrashing | |
| 1. n. action of the verb to thrash |  |
| the thrashings of a fish on a hook | |
| 2. n. a beating, especially a severe one | |
| 3. n. (slang) A heavy defeat | |
| 4. n. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage | |
| 5. n. (dance) slam dancing | |
| 6. n. (colloquial) threshing (of cereal crop, etc) | |
| thrash | |
| 1. v. To beat mercilessly. | |
| 2. v. To defeat utterly. | |
| 3. v. To thresh. | |
| 4. v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. | |
| 5. v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. | |
| 6. v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. | |
| 7. n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating. | |
| 8. n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking. | |
