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THRASH ABOUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move or stir about violently
Example:
The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
Synonyms:
convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "thrash about" is one way to...):
agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thrash about"):
whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)
Sentence frames:
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