thrash about

Questions about thrash about

What does thrash about mean?

thrash about means "move or stir about violently".

What is another word for thrash about?

Close synonyms include convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, slash. 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 about a common word?

thrash about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.