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thrash

verb [T] (HIT)
 
 
/θræʃ/

Definition

to hit a person or animal hard many times as a punishment: His father used to thrash him when he was a boy. He thrashed the horse with his whip.Punishing by causing painHitting and beatingPunishing and punishments
(Definition of thrash verb (HIT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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