I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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Raving and thrashing about , the victim becomes gradually weaker and, if lucky, may eventually become unconscious.
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More screams and grimaces and thrashing about , and then pure vertigo.
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He's a restless sleeper, kicking and thrashing about throughout the night.
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None the less to ward them off, lanterns are hung near the surface where the sharks thrash about .
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Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor, gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth.
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Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough.
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As for Hague's speech, this is all desperate thrashing about by a failed leader of a failed party.
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Sobbing and screaming, she thrashed about like a woman possessed.
around
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Suddenly she sat up and started thrashing around .
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I struggle with them, thrashing around , and wake up to the alarm.
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They thrashed around , kicked and screamed and begged me to help ... but I couldn't move.
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She fell backward and off the chair and thrashed around holding her throat.
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Often he seemed desperate, violent, as if thrashing around inside himself for certainties that weren't there.
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He goes to bed late, thrashes around , snores and yanks the duvet over to his side.
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There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.
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The snake is still finding enough strength to thrash around as much as a flying snake might dare.
out
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The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne.
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Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
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He tried to touch her again and this time she thrashed out wildly.
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Sometimes they are quiet and bitter, and some-times they bellow like wounded animals, thrashing out at a hostile universe.
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The details of a huge trade treaty are being thrashed out with Cairo.
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Commissioners will thrash out how much phone companies can charge their competitors for using their lines in various ways.
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That is the best forum for that to be thrashed out and, I hope, in the end resolved.
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Whether and how such efforts involve Boalt administration could now be thrashed out in court.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat/thrash etc sb to within an inch of their life
soundly defeated/beaten/thrashed
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In Hayward, a proposed library improvement tax was soundly defeated.
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Synthonia are now the only side without a win after they were soundly beaten at Blackhall.
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The Republicans were soundly defeated in the South, even in places where there were voting black majorities.
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They were led by a fanatical chieftain named Yusuf and Alfonso was soundly defeated at the battle of Sagrajas.
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When it came up for a vote in March, it was soundly defeated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Gators soundly thrashed San Jose State.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the fish thrashed and broke free.
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Great issues of conscience are thrashed out in impassioned, eloquent language.
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He's a restless sleeper, kicking and thrashing about throughout the night.
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He was thrashing from side to side.
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Like a fish in a net, the more he thrashes, the more he is doomed.
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The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne.
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We tied balloons and streamers to the tents, wheelbarrow and Land Rover and watched them being thrashed by the wind.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels's thrash .
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Anne heard the tinny thrash of muted music.
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Conversation was limited by the roar of the engine and the thrash of the bow waves.
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Just withering thrash grooves that shoot past in a punch-drunk blur, leaving their peers way behind.
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Rebel against the party line and the usually dreary office thrash will become a real glam ball.
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There's a bloody thrash metal band, actually.