different between thrash vs vanquish

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)

1. To beat mercilessly.
2. To defeat utterly.
3. To thresh.
4. 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.

5. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
6. (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)

1. (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.
2. (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)

1. (music) thrash metal, thrash

   Synonym: thrashmetal

English

Etymology

From Middle English venquysshen, vaynquisshen, borrowed from a conjugated form of Old French veincre, from Latin vinc?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væ?kw??/

Verb

vanquish (third-person singular simple present vanquishes, present participle vanquishing, simple past and past participle vanquished)

1. To defeat, to overcome.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     This bold assertion has been so fully vanquish'd in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.

Related terms

• convince
• evince
• victor

Translations