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thrash
English
Etymology
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Verb
thrash (third-person singular simple present thrashes, present participle thrashing, simple past and past participle thrashed)
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
- c. 1690, Juvenal, John Dryden (translator), The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, page 364,
- (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
Derived terms
- thrashel
- thrasher
Translations
Noun
thrash (countable and uncountable, plural thrashes)
- (countable) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
- 1934 May, Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast in Weird Tales,
- (music, uncountable) thrash metal
References
- (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
Anagrams
- Harths, harths
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English thrash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tr??/ (occasionally pronounced as [?????])
- Hyphenation: thrash
Noun
thrash m (uncountable)
- (music) thrash metal, thrash
- Synonym: thrashmetal
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scourge
English
Etymology
From Old French escorgier (“to whip”), from Vulgar Latin excorrigiare, consisting of ex- (“thoroughly”) + corrigia (“thong, whip”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sk?d?/
- (US, also) IPA(key): /sk??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Noun
scourge (plural scourges)
- A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
- A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
- A whip, often of leather.
Translations
Verb
scourge (third-person singular simple present scourges, present participle scourging, simple past and past participle scourged)
- To strike with a scourge; to flog.
Synonyms
- (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip
Translations
See also
- Scourge in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scourge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- scrouge
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