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Thrashed vs Threshed - What's the difference?

thrashed | threshed |

As verbs the difference between thrashed and threshed

is that thrashed is (thrash) while threshed is (thresh).

thrashed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (thrash)

    • thrash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To beat mercilessly.
  • To defeat utterly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth. }}
  • To thresh.
  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  • * '', 1987, ''John Dryden: The Major Works , Oxford University Press, page 364,
    • I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
  • (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.

    • Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • * 1918 , ,
    • 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.
  • * 1934 May, ,
    • 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.
  • (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

    • Synonyms

    * (music) thrash metal

    References

    * (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

    threshed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (thresh)

    • thresh

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
  • (literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

    • Quotations

    * 2009 , Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About” *: You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance? You do? Good.

    Synonyms

    * thrash

    Derived terms

    * thresher * thresherman * threshold