thrash

hakata

pieksää

ruuhkautua

heittelehtiä To beat mercilessly.
To defeat utterly.
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To thresh.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
(circa) w:Juvenal Juvenal, w:John Dryden|John Dryden (translator), w:Satires (Juvenal)|The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 1987, John Dryden: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=UfV9grPtmTYC&pg=PA364&dq=%22I+rather+would+be+Maevius%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k09UUeaVM5DYkgXZw4DADA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22I%20rather%20would%20be%20Maevius%22&f=false page 364,

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.

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.

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.