Definitions
a swimming kick used while treading water
Word origin
From Middle English thrasshen, a dialectal variant of thresshen, threshen (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, whence also Old High German dreskan, Old Norse þreskja.
Used in a sentence
“But in the town it was well known, when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives.”
“Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.”
“I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Swimming kick”6 letters
02“Beat soundly”6 letters
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