Usually means: Excessive paging, degrading system performance.
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  1. thrashing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thrashing: Merriam-Webster
  3. thrashing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thrashing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thrashing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thrashing, thrashing: Wordnik
  7. thrashing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thrashing: Wiktionary
  9. thrashing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thrashing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thrashing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thrashing: Dictionary.com
  13. thrashing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Thrashing (computer science): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Thrashing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. thrashing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. thrashing: Rhymezone
  18. Thrashing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. thrashing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. thrashing: FreeDictionary.org
  21. thrashing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. thrashing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Thrashing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. thrashing: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrashing: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. thrashing: Netlingo
  3. Thrashing: Game Dictionary
  4. thrashing: Encyclopedia

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  1. thrashing: Idioms

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  1. Thrashing: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Action of the verb to thrash.
▸ noun:  A beating, especially a severe one.
▸ noun:  (slang) A heavy defeat.
▸ noun:  (computing) Excessive paging within virtual storage.
▸ noun:  (dance) Slam dancing.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)

Similar:
beating, drubbing, whacking, walloping, whipping, flailing, debacle, slaughter, moving, trouncing, more...

Opposite:
calm, stillness, peace, serenity

Types:
lashing, beating, flogging, whipping, caning, spanking, paddling, more...

Phrases:
thrashing around, thrashing out, thrashing machine, thrashing floor, more...

Adjectives:
good, sound, severe, thorough, tremendous, wild, violent, terrible, verbal, worst, much

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Similar:
beating, drubbing, whacking, walloping, whipping, flailing, debacle, slaughter, moving, trouncing, more...

Opposite:
calm, stillness, peace, serenity

Types:
lashing, beating, flogging, whipping, caning, spanking, paddling, more...

Phrases:
thrashing around, thrashing out, thrashing machine, thrashing floor, more...

Adjectives:
good, sound, severe, thorough, tremendous, wild, violent, terrible, verbal, worst, much

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark blue,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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