different between thrashing vs clobbering

English

thrashing

thrashing (plural thrashings)

Action of the verb to thrash.
A beating, especially a severe one.
(slang) A heavy defeat.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
  Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.
(computing) Excessive paging within virtual storage.
(dance) Slam dancing.
(colloquial) Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)

clobbering

clobbering (plural clobberings)

clobbering (not comparable)

That clobbers.
- 2012, Scott Hales, "My Final Verdict on 'A Roof Overhead'"
  It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.

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