verb
- Move or stir about violently.
- usage: "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
- synonyms: convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
- Move like a flail; thresh about.
- usage: "Her arms were flailing"
- synonyms: flail
- Beat the seeds out of a grain.
- synonyms: thrash
- Give a thrashing to; beat hard.
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