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- Dictionarythrashing/ˈθraʃɪŋ/
noun
- 1. a heavy defeat of a sporting opponent: "both the men's and women's team gave Bradford a thrashing" Similar
- 2. an act of physically beating someone; a beating: "a sound thrashing might teach the individual to refrain from complaining" Similar
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In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer's virtual memory resources are overused, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, inhibiting most application-level processing. It causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse.
an occasion when someone defeats someone else very easily in a game, competition, or election: The team was on the receiving end of a six-goal thrashing recently. The ruling party is expecting a thrashing in the elections to the upper house of parliament this weekend.
The meaning of THRASHING is a severe beating or flogging. How to use thrashing in a sentence. a severe beating or flogging; a dominating defeat of an opponent…
the act of a person or thing that thrashes. a pile or quantity of threshed grain or the grain threshed at one time. thrashing. / ˈθræʃɪŋ / noun. a physical assault; flogging. a convincing defeat. a 5–1 thrashing.
Definition of thrashing noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
THRASH definition: 1. to hit a person or animal hard many times as a punishment: 2. to move from side to side in a…. Learn more.
the act of whipping with a horsewhip. type of: corporal punishment. the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime. noun. a sound defeat. synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping. see more. see less.
If one player or team gives another one a thrashing, they defeat them easily or by a large score. She dropped only eight points in the 43-minute thrashing of the former champion. American English : thrashing / ˈθræʃɪŋ /
[intransitive, transitive] to move or make something move in a way that is violent or shows a loss of control. thrash (about/around) Someone was thrashing around in the water, obviously in trouble. The animal thrashed about in pain. The cow fell on its side and thrashed about wildly.
What does the noun thrashing mean? There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun thrashing, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. thrashing has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
