thrashing
thrashing Lexical Profile
thrashing Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A decisive, overwhelming defeat in a game, sport, or contest.
"The visiting soccer team suffered a humiliating thrashing in the championship final."
An act of physically beating or whipping someone severely, or of flailing about wildly.
"The sudden thrashing of the hooked marlin nearly capsized the small fishing boat."
A state in computing where a virtual memory system spends most of its time swapping data pages between main memory and disk storage rather than executing instructions, causing severe performance degradation.
"Adding more RAM to the server resolved the disk thrashing that had slowed the database to a crawl."
• adjective
Moving or flailing about in a violent, wild, or uncontrolled manner.
"The rescue workers had to carefully avoid the thrashing tail of the stranded whale."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the verb 'thrash', a dialectal variant of 'thresh', from Old English 'therscan', meaning to tread, trample, or beat out grain with a flail.