thrash

1. 1.

   a swimming kick used while treading water

   Broaderswimming kick

   Part oftreading water

Other forms of thrash

plural

thrashes·

past tense

thrashed·

present participle

thrashing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thrash

What does thrash mean?

thrash means "give a thrashing to; beat hard". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thrash?

thrash has 1 syllable: thrash. In IPA it is /ˈθɹæʃ/.

What is another word for thrash?

Close synonyms include thresh, lam, flail, convulse, thresh. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thrash a common word?

thrash is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.