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Thrashings

[thrash-ing]

thrash·ing

[thrash-ing]
noun
1.
a flogging; whipping.
2.
the act of a person or thing that thrashes.
3.
a pile or quantity of threshed grain or the grain threshed at one time.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see thrash, -ing1
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Thrashings is always a great word to know.
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