a swimming kick used while treading water

give a thrashing to; beat hard

[ Syn: thresh , lam , flail ]

move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

[ Syn: convulse , thresh , thresh about , thrash about , slash , toss , jactitate ]

dance the slam dance

[ Syn: slam dance , slam , mosh ]

beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all

move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; The system is thrashing again!'

beat the seeds out of a grain

[ Syn: thresh ]

beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; We licked the other team on Sunday!

[ Syn: cream , bat , clobber , drub , lick ]