thrash

thrash
1. verb /θɹæʃ/
a) To beat mercilessly.
b) To defeat utterly.
2. noun /θɹæʃ/
a) A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.

b) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.


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