Thrash vs Whup - What's the difference?
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To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.
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To thresh.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
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(software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
(computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
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(music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
As verbs the difference between thrash and whup
is that thrash is to beat mercilessly while whup is alternative form of whoop to whip, thrash, or defeat.As a noun thrash
is a beat or blow; the sound of beating.thrash
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Verb
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- I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
Noun
(-)- Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
- As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.