Thrashing

a. & n.

1.

a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. Thrashing machine a machine for separating grain from the straw.

Noun	1.	thrashing - a sound defeat Synonyms: drubbing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, slaughter, debacle
	2.	thrashing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows Synonyms: whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, trouncing, lacing

thrashing - thrash

Waterloo, assault, bastinado, basting, battering, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, castigation, chastisement, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, discipline, disciplining, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hammering, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, mauling, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pasting, pistol-whipping, pounding, punishment, quietus, rawhiding, rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash, spanking, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, tanning, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment, whipping