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To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.

To knock against others intentionally while dancing at a rock concert; slam-dance.

To strike violently; batter

(intransitive) To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.

To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail

(transitive) To intentionally jump into and collide with another, similarly behaving dancer at a concert.

To defeat soundly or decisively.

The moshing style of dancing.

To thresh (grain).

Dance the slam dance

To sail (a boat) against opposing winds or tides.

To move wildly or violently

To strike or flail.

To thresh.

To sail against opposing tides or winds.

The act or an instance of thrashing

(Music) See speed metal.

To beat mercilessly.

To defeat utterly.

To thresh.

To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

(computing) In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

(countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

A swimming kick used while treading water

Give a thrashing to; beat hard

Move or stir about violently;

Dance the slam dance

Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation;

Beat the seeds out of a grain

Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight;