thrash
/θɹæʃ/ verb C1- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
He/she/it thrashes · Past thrashed · Past participle thrashed · -ing form thrashing
Verb forms
- Base form
- thrash
- He/she/it
- thrashes
- Past
- thrashed
- Past participle
- thrashed
- -ing form
- thrashing
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