Synonyms: thrash
Definition: a swimming kick used while treading water
Similar words: swimming kick
Definition: a movement of the legs in swimming
Synonyms: clobber, thrash, lick, drub, cream, bat
Definition: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
Usage: We licked the other team on Sunday!
Similar words: trounce, crush, vanquish, shell, beat, beat out
Definition: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Usage: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship; We beat the competition; Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash, thresh
Definition: give a thrashing to; beat hard
Similar words: work over, beat, beat up
Definition: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
Usage: Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night; The teacher used to beat the students
Definition: beat the seeds out of a grain
Synonyms: thrash
Definition: move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation
Usage: The system is thrashing again!
Similar words: swap
Definition: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
Synonyms: thrash
Definition: beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
Synonyms: thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss, slash, convulse, jactitate
Definition: move or stir about violently
Usage: The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
Definition: move or cause to move back and forth
Usage: The chemist shook the flask vigorously; My hands were shaking
Synonyms: slam, slam dance, mosh, thrash
Definition: dance the slam dance
Similar words: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance
Definition: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
Usage: My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio