The word "thrashing" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to beat or whip severely. Example: The driver was thrashed by the police for speeding.
It had torn around round the island for about 36 hours, and given it a real thrashing, flattening vegetation, whipping off a few roofs and generally causing trouble.
The Toon might even register only their third win of the calendar year against West Ham, who have been abject themselves since suffering a dreadful thrashing in the FA Cup at West Brom in February.
Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, made Pietersen a live issue again on Sunday when he said a return for the 34-year-old batsman was possible if he scored big runs in county cricket, an unexpected development which came hours after England's nine-wicket thrashing by Sri Lanka in Wellington, the team's third heavy defeat of a demoralising World Cup.
The TV comedy gold of Basil Fawlty thrashing his car for 'deliberately' breaking down on Gourmet Night is an illustration of our human tendency towards anthropomorphism - attributing human like characteristics to non-human things.
Still, Port are on a bit of a hiding to nothing here and a thrashing of the Dees certainly won't allay growing fears that they're still a little way off the Premiership window.
A suspected injury to Cyril Rioli could sour Hawthorn's 53-point thrashing of Gold Coast at Aurora Stadium.
Milan moved ahead of Juventus after thrashing Torino 5 1 at San Siro, with the help of another hat-trick from Filippo Inzaghi.
"They're thrashing around making up things on the hoof because they daren't admit what everybody knows, which is that they're not going to win an outright majority.
This time, however, there is one smaller party whose support looks remarkably solid: 95% of the small sample of SNP respondents in this latest survey state that their mind is made up, making it increasingly hard to imagine how Scottish Labour can pull back from the thrashing that all the polls have been projecting.
Karpov's riposte to those who sneered that he was champion in name only was to play in almost every top-flight tournament over the next 10 years, thrashing his rivals and setting a new record for cons ecutive tournament victories.
There was no such drama for Herberger and his side, a 6-1 thrashing of Austria, who had beaten the host nation 7-5 in the quarters, taking West Germany into the final.
