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thrash - verb

  1. To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: flail, thresh. See attack. strike.
  2. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thresh. Informal lambaste. Slang clobber. See attack. strike.
  3. To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide, lash, whip. Informal trim. Slang lay into, lick. See attack. reward.
  4. To swing about or strike at wildly: flail, thresh, toss. See attack. move. strike.
  5. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, trounce, vanquish. Informal massacre, wallop. Slang clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See win.

thrash out - phrasal verb

  1. To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about: bandy(about), discuss, moot, talk over, thresh out or over, toss around. Informal hash(over), kick around, knock about or around. Slang rap. See words.