thrash

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From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, (whence the modern English thresh), from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh1- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch dorsen (“to thresh; to thrash”), German and Luxembourgish dreschen (“to thresh; to thrash”), Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn, “to thresh”), Danish tærske (“to thresh”), Faroese treskja (“to thresh”), Icelandic þreskja (“to thresh”), Norwegian Nynorsk treska, treske, treskja, treskje (“to thrash”), Swedish tröska (“to thresh”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽 (þriskan, “to thresh”), Finnish rehkiä (“to drudge; to toil”); also Welsh taradr (“auger, wimble; awl, borer; drill”), Latin terō (“to rub or triturate; to wear away or wear out, consume; to tread; to press with a mill; to pass, spend”), Greek τρίβω (trívo, “to grate; to rub”), Albanian tjerr (“to spin”), Belarusian це́рці (cjérci, “to rub; to polish; to pinch; to grind”), Bulgarian три́я (tríja, “to rub; to chafe; to grind”), Czech třít (“to rub; to spawn”), Polish tarć, treć, trzeć, trzyć (“to rub; to shred; to cut; to chafe; to crush; to spawn”), Russian тере́ть (terétʹ, “to rub; to polish; to grind”), Serbo-Croatian тр̏ти, tȑti (“to rub; to cause friction; to scour; to break, crush”), Slovak trieť (“to rub”), Slovene treti (“to crack open; to rub”), Ukrainian те́рти (térty, “to rub; to scrub”), Armenian թուր (tʻur, “sword”), Sogdian ܕܣܦܪܛܪ (dsprtr, “hand towel”), Hittite 𒋻𒌑𒍣 (tar-ú-zi, “to perform a round dance, to dance in twisting manner”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B tärk- (“to allow, let; to let go”), Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, “spindle”).

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: Ta Rrash — to beat mercilessly
• Bulgarian: напердашвам (naperdašvam) — to beat mercilessly
• Bulgarian: пребивам (prebivam) — to beat mercilessly
• Danish: tæske — to beat mercilessly
• Dutch: afranselen — to beat mercilessly
• Esperanto: draŝi — to beat mercilessly
• Estonian: peksma — to beat mercilessly
• Finnish: pieksää — to beat mercilessly
• French: passer à tabac — to beat mercilessly
• French: rosser — to beat mercilessly
• German: schlagen — to beat mercilessly
• German: dreschen — to beat mercilessly
• German: zusammenschlagen — to beat mercilessly
• German: eindreschen — to beat mercilessly
• Irish: greasáil — to beat mercilessly
• Irish: gread — to beat mercilessly
• Irish: liúr — to beat mercilessly
• Italian: infierire — to beat mercilessly
• Italian: sferzare — to beat mercilessly
• Italian: percuotere — to beat mercilessly
• Italian: bastonare — to beat mercilessly
• Italian: picchiare — to beat mercilessly
• Norman: dêgraîssi — to beat mercilessly
• Russian: молоти́ть (molotítʹ) — to beat mercilessly
• Russian: колоти́ть (kolotítʹ) — to beat mercilessly
• Russian: лупи́ть (lupítʹ) — to beat mercilessly
• Russian: долбить (dolbitʹ) — to beat mercilessly
• Scottish Gaelic: buail — to beat mercilessly
• Serbo-Croatian: mlatiti — to beat mercilessly
• Slovak: mlátiť — to beat mercilessly
• Slovak: tĺcť — to beat mercilessly
• Spanish: vapulear — to beat mercilessly
• Spanish: zurrar — to beat mercilessly
• Spanish: bejuquear — to beat mercilessly
• Spanish: dar una paliza — to beat mercilessly
• Swedish: spöa — to beat mercilessly
• Swedish: spöa upp — to beat mercilessly
• Swedish: ge stryk — to beat mercilessly
• Swedish: klå — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: лупцюва́ти (lupcjuváty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: мотлоши́ти (motlošýty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: чухра́ти (čuxráty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: дуба́сити (dubásyty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: лупи́ти (lupýty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: гамсе́лити (hamsélyty) — to beat mercilessly
• Ukrainian: голо́мшити (holómšyty) — to beat mercilessly
• Finnish: rökittää — to defeat utterly
• French: écraser — to defeat utterly
• French: battre à plate couture — to defeat utterly
• French: humilier — to defeat utterly
• French: défoncer — to defeat utterly
• French: éclater — to defeat utterly
• German: besiegen — to defeat utterly
• German: zerstören — to defeat utterly
• German: vernichten — to defeat utterly
• Italian: annientare — to defeat utterly
• Italian: sconfiggere — to defeat utterly
• Italian: travolgere — to defeat utterly
• Norman: rosser — to defeat utterly
• Russian: разгроми́ть (razgromítʹ) — to defeat utterly
• Russian: разби́ть (razbítʹ) — to defeat utterly
• Slovak: rozdrviť — to defeat utterly
• Swedish: spöa — to defeat utterly
• Swedish: klå — to defeat utterly
• Ukrainian: розтрощи́ти (roztroščýty) — to defeat utterly
• Ukrainian: розгроми́ти (rozhromýty) — to defeat utterly
• Portuguese: mover-se para um e outro lado — to move about wildly or violently
• Portuguese: agitar-se — to move about wildly or violently
• Finnish: koeajaa perin pohjin — software: to extensively test a software system
• Finnish: testata perin pohjin — software: to extensively test a software system
• Russian: молоти́ть (molotítʹ) — software: to extensively test a software system
• Finnish: ruuhkautua — computing: to cause poor performance of a virtual memory