Literary notes about thrash (AI summary)
In literature, thrash is employed as a vivid descriptor for both physical violence and intense, often uncontrolled, movement. Authors use the term to suggest the brutal act of beating or punishment, as when characters threaten to “thrash” someone into submission or assert their dominance ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, it can also describe rapid, almost animalistic motion, lending a dynamic quality to a scene—for instance, when a character “thrashes around” in desperation or when the rhythm of music is likened to a thrashing beat ([4], [5]). In these varied uses, thrash effectively conveys both literal brutality and the visceral energy of tumultuous action.
- No, sir, I won't thrash my boy for your satisfaction.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I’ll thrash you, Lyamshin, if you don’t give me the other eight.”
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - She’ll snap at the master himself, and as good as dares him to thrash her; and the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Then he began to thrash around like a thresher in a barn.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - and I heard her guitar thrash out some chords, then her drummer playing, then that big deep bass.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
