Synonyms of thrashing

thrashing 1 of 2

noun

as in hammering

Related Words

• hammering
• pounding
• bashing
• pummeling
• licking
• battering
• bludgeoning
• clobbering
• blow
• thump
• slap
• hit
• lambasting
• buffet
• punch
• knock
• encounter
• meeting
• rap
• contact
• shock
• collision
• jolt
• touch
• impact
• concussion
• impingement
• bump
• kick
• crash
• wallop
• jounce
• jar
• slam
• strike
• smash

thrashing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of thrash

1

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

the incumbent has been thrashing his opponents for so long that there's never any real contest for the Senate seat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• burying
• beating
• overcoming
• bombing
• throwing
• upsetting
• smothering
• flattening
• annihilating
• pasting
• routing
• clobbering
• trimming
• trouncing
• dusting
• drubbing
• creaming
• mastering
• whupping
• skinning
• walloping
• whomping
• taking
• shellacking
• waxing
• tromping
• whopping
• smoking
• blowing away
• topping
• sweeping
• overwhelming
• scoring
• crushing
• conquering
• exceeding
• destroying
• succeeding
• skunking
• dispatching
• surpassing
• licking
• capping
• eating alive
• running circles around
• subduing
• snowing under
• beating the pants off
• slaughtering
• wiping the floor with
• vanquishing
• finishing
• subjugating
• surmounting
• overthrowing
• prevailing (over)
• hurdling
• upending
• besting
• overpowering
• winning (against)
• outdoing
• transcending
• triumphing (over)
• knocking over
• eclipsing
• outstripping
• bettering
• outdistancing
• outshining
• excelling
• overmatching
• flourishing
• knocking off
• overtopping
• overbearing
• breaking
• sinking
• worsting
• edging (out)
• outfighting
• pipping
• acing (out)
• doing in
• nosing out

2

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible

thrashed the poor horse with a riding crop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• hiding
• slashing
• lashing
• flailing
• flicking
• slapping
• switching
• hitting
• flogging
• knocking
• cutting
• spanking
• flagellating
• licking
• banging
• punching
• pounding
• mauling
• scourging
• smacking
• tanning
• whaling
• leathering
• whacking
• batting
• horsewhipping
• strapping
• thumping
• beating
• birching
• clipping
• swiping
• clapping
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• swatting
• caning
• boxing
• pummeling
• battering
• cudgeling
• hammering
• clubbing
• pelting
• thwacking
• clobbering
• bashing
• cracking
• slugging
• smiting
• socking
• bludgeoning
• clouting
• paddling
• bopping
• drubbing
• walloping
• quirting
• pasting
• mangling
• knouting
• cuffing
• touching up
• buffeting
• slogging
• belting
• roughing
• busting
• lathering
• threshing
• lambasting
• pistol-whipping
• whupping
• blackjacking
• whopping
• slating
• working over
• tromping
• basting
• lamming
• lacing
• fustigating
• fibbing
• belaboring
• bunging
• pommeling

3

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

the tree branches thrashed the sides of the house as the storm continued to rage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• lashing
• whipping
• hiding
• beating
• battering
• thumping
• slapping
• pelting
• knocking
• attacking
• hitting
• smashing
• punching
• slamming
• doing
• mauling
• spanking
• pummeling
• assaulting
• hammering
• batting
• bashing
• bludgeoning
• chopping
• drubbing
• paddling
• smacking
• flogging
• walloping
• storming
• raiding
• clubbing
• buffeting
• whacking
• slogging
• belting
• lathering
• switching
• lambasting
• threshing
• currying
• tanning
• whupping
• boxing
• slating
• punching out
• whopping
• working over
• whaling
• tromping
• basting
• swiping
• lacing
• fibbing
• belaboring
• birching
• roughing (up)
• cracking
• messing (up)
• wounding
• rushing
• swatting
• thwacking
• clobbering
• pommeling
• cudgeling
• strapping
• pasting
• socking
• bunging up
• assailing
• beating up on
• cuffing
• descending (on or upon)
• clouting
• caning
• whomping
• jumping (on)
• flagellating
• busting
• whamming
• besetting
• lacerating
• scourging
• laying on
• pouncing (on or upon)
• lamming
• leathering
• mutilating
• mangling
• pistol-whipping
• goring
• horsewhipping
• maiming
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• fustigating

4

as in tossing

to make jerky or restless movements

in obvious pain, the wounded soldier thrashed about his cot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tossing
• twitching
• squirming
• jerking
• fidgeting
• twisting
• fiddling
• writhing
• shivering
• trembling
• shaking
• wiggling
• jigging
• wriggling
• jiggling
• threshing
• quivering
• shuddering
• fluttering
• squiggling
• flitting
• quaking
• pacing
• twittering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resting
• relaxing
• unwinding
• calming (down)
• stilling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of thrashing

Noun

Advanced signs include anxiety, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, extreme thirst paired with panic at the sight of fluids, heavy saliva and aggressive thrashing or biting. — The Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

New Zealand declined — and carried out their haka in their changing room before delivering a 45-10 thrashing. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Verb

Fatal Influence sprinted out to a lead by isolating their opponents and thrashing them on the outside. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Then its arms swing harder and its entire body begins thrashing. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026