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Meanings of thrashing in English

Portuguese
surra
Catalan
estomacada
Spanish
paliza

A sound defeat.

      surra
      Russian
      пробуксовка
      Portuguese
      thrashing
      Spanish
      thrashing

      Phenomenon that when a computer's virtual memory subsystem is in a constant state of paging, rapidly exchanging data in memory for data on disk, to the exclusion of most application-level processing.

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              Usage of thrashing in English
              1
              Ace High said nothing; simply tightened his grip on Heck's thrashing arm.
              The stand
              2
              I can't help him if he's thrashing in the water, Glover said.
              Ebony
              3
              Ash stopped thrashing long enough to get a good look at me.
              Moon Over Soho
              4
              The slump is also thrashing home builders and developers, banks have said.
              Reuters
              5
              The terrible thrashing about in the icy water had quenched my spirit.
              The Young Forester
              6
              Yet he could still make out something thrashing within: rearing, reaching, writhing.
              Blood and Bone
              7
              Goliath roared past, thrashing the air; David swayed in with darting fists.
              Alcatraz
              8
              And he had shown no disapproval in his telling of the thrashing.
              Wanderers
              9
              Egwene landed under him with a gasp, immediately thrashing to get free.
              To the blight: the eye of the world
              10
              I saw a tail and a lot of thrashing, Joe Booth said.
              Radio NZ
              11
              The Chinese are too self-conceited to give in without a sound thrashing.
              The Three Admirals
              12
              The Windwalker's thrashing only caused the needles within to do more damage.
              Surrender to the will of the night
              13
              The twitching became an epileptic thrashing that grew more violent every second.
              Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
              14
              Arturo Vidal is also a doubt after missing the thrashing of Dortmund.
              The South African
              15
              This lost the barber a customer and secured the boy a thrashing.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 / Little J...
              16
              The way Sid was thrashing about, Toby couldn't hold the tool steady.
              Come out tonight
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              Translations for thrashing
              Portuguese
              surrathrashing
              Thrashing through the time
              Thrashing across language varieties
              New Zealand
              Common
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Common
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