thrashing

Other forms of thrashing

plural

thrashings·

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 thrashing

What does thrashing mean?

thrashing means "a sound defeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thrashing?

thrashing has 2 syllables: thras-hing. The stress falls on "thras". In IPA it is /ˈθɹæʃɪŋ/.

What is another word for thrashing?

Close synonyms include walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing. 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 thrashing a common word?

thrashing 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.