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🌪️ 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

to thrash

1 9.3
Spend most time moving data between memory and disk, making the computer slow
  • verb
  • /θræʃ/
  • Specialized
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  • When the program started thrashing, it indicated that the system was overwhelmed and could not efficiently manage data.

Examples

  • By the time the next Android version comes out, Samsung will still be on Step 0 trying to figure out if it would be good to update "Nexus Two" or just thrash it.

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  • The Internet thrashes media and so on.

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  • Personally, I think OSX makes better use of a processor and RAM than Windows, and Windows loves to thrash your hard drive.

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  • You can sometimes get into situations where an M-V-C triplet will thrash forever between two different values for one of the Model's properties.

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  • It was thrashed for a more aggressive 27.2% slide in the Oct. 14 regular session.

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  • It’s not just a seven-story-tall black wave about to engulf your town, it’s a complete system thrashing out of control...

    Academic text (2016)

  • My computer began to thrash when too many applications were running at the same time, causing delays in processing.

  • After changing the settings, I noticed that the software stopped thrashing and started functioning smoothly.

Antonyms

to optimize
69 5.3

Make something work as well as possible

to streamline
41 4.1

Make a process or system simpler and more efficient

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 Inefficient

to stall
36 3.9
to thrash
  • Specialized
1 9.3
lag
46 4.1

Surface Forms

thrash infinitive
thrashed past
thrashed past participle
thrashing present participle
thrashes third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the computer sense of thrash is to think of the original 'to beat' idea (like thresh) — the machine is busy 'beating' its memory back and forth and so it works very slowly.