| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thresh. Informal : lambaste. Slang : clobber. Idioms: rain blows on. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 2. To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide2, lash, whip. Informal : trim. Slang : lay into, lick. See ATTACK, REWARD. 3. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN. 4. To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: flail, thresh. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 5. To swing about or strike at wildly: flail, thresh, toss. Idioms: toss and turn. See ATTACK, MOVE, STRIKE. | | PHRASAL VERB: | thrash out To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about: bandy (about), discuss, moot, talk over, thresh out or (over), toss around. Informal : hash (over), kick around, knock about or (around). Slang : rap3. Idioms: go into a huddle. See WORDS.
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