Synonyms:
thrash
Meaning: a swimming kick used while treading water
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
thrash, thresh, lam, flail
Meaning: give a thrashing to; beat hard
Synonyms:
convulse, thresh, thresh_about, thrash, thrash_about, slash, toss, jactitate
Meaning: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
Usage examples
"Shall we thrash him?
There's nothing to hurt except snakes--and they slip away quick enough if you thrash in the bushes.'
They say he used to jump up and thrash even ladies with a stick," observed Fyodor Pavlovitch, as he went up the steps.
In Java, when rain is wanted, two men will sometimes thrash each other with supple rods till the blood flows down their backs; the streaming blood represents the rain, and no doubt is supposed to make it fall on the ground.
But then it occurred to him that he did not know the name of a witness he could summon, and that a personal fight against a railway corporation was about the most hopeless in the world. He then thought he would seek out that conductor, lie in wait for him at some station, and thrash him, or get thrashed himself.