thrash
/θɹæʃ/
noun
Meaning
A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
Thrash metal
verb
Meaning
To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.
To thresh.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.