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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.