🌪️ To move violently 👊 To beat hard 🏆 To defeat fully 🦵 A strong kick 🤘 To dance wildly 🌾 To remove seeds 💻 To slow down ❤️ To beat irregularly

to thrash

8.8

Beat very fast and unevenly so the heart cannot pump blood well

verb
/θræʃ/

Specialized

: fibrilar

"Oh, thank God," breathed Larry, clutching his chest where his heart was no doubt thrashing.
the heart thrashed

Examples

After I thrash Captain Morgen, you can have a whack." Picard sat back in his command chair.

Fiction book (1991)
As he climbed the steep hill, he could feel his heart thrashing wildly in his chest from exertion.
She clutched her chest, feeling her heart thrash in panic when she heard the sudden loud noise.
During the last moments of the race, my heart began to thrash with excitement as I approached the finish line.

Synonyms

to palpitate

vsto thrash

1 8.1

To make a body part, especially the heart, beat fast and hard because of strong feeling

leads to ineffective pumping by reducing blood output to nearly zero

Antonyms

to regulate

82 3.7

To control the amount, speed, or way something happens

to stabilize

75 4.3

To become steady and stop changing

Phrasal Verbs

to thrash out

Informal

2 5.3

To discuss a problem carefully to reach a solution or agreement

to thrash about

1 6.1

Move the body violently when in pain or fear

to thrash out a compromise

5.7

Talk about things fully to reach an agreement when people disagree

How Irregular

to thrash

Specialized

8.8

to fibrillate

Specialized

4 9.9

to flutter

8 4.4

Surface Forms

thrash infinitive

thrashed past

thrashed past participle

thrashing present participle

thrashes third person singular

Etymology

Thrash grew from the old idea of 'beating' (see thresh), so if a heart 'thrashes' it is beating wildly and out of control, like something hit too hard and too fast.