thrashing
打ちのめすこと
解説 Definition
thrashing は thrash（激しく打つ、打ちのめす）の現在分詞・動名詞です。相手を激しく打つことや、競技などで大差をつけて打ち負かすことを表します。
The present participle or gerund of “thrash,” describing repeated violent striking or beating. It can also refer to defeating an opponent by a very large margin, or to something such as a storm hitting an object forcefully and continuously.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 thrash「激しく打つ」に -ing をそのまま付けた現在分詞・動名詞。もとは穀物を打って脱穀する動作に関係し、繰り返し強く打つ像が核になる。thrash a heavy bag、a storm thrashing the windows の物理的な打撃から、a team thrashing its opponent という「大差で圧倒する」用法へ広げて覚える。
Thrashing is thrash plus -ing, added without a spelling change. Link thrash with the older agricultural image of beating grain during threshing: the repeated, forceful blows are the memory core. Picture a boxer thrashing a heavy bag or a storm thrashing windows all night. From that physical sense, the word extends to sport, where one team may be thrashing another by a large score. Compared with simply beating an opponent, thrashing suggests overwhelming force or a decisive margin.
例文
The boxer was thrashing the heavy bag.
そのボクサーは重いサンドバッグを激しく打っていました。
Their team was thrashing us by halftime.
前半が終わるころには、相手チームが私たちを圧倒していました。
The storm kept thrashing the windows all night.
嵐は一晩中、窓を激しく打ち続けました。
thrashing の類義語・関連語
thrashing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語のþrescan（脱穀する）に由来し、後に綴りがthrashへ変化しました。語根に接尾辞-ingが付き、穀物を激しく叩く農作業が転じて「徹底的に打ちのめす」意味になりました。同語根の関連語にthresh（脱穀する）があります。
Thrashing is the -ing form of thrash. Thrash is historically related to thresh and ultimately to Old English þrescan, “to beat or thresh grain.” Agricultural threshing involved striking harvested plants to separate grain, providing the central image of repeated heavy blows. The spelling and senses later diverged: thrash developed broader meanings involving violent beating, forceful movement, and decisive defeat, while thresh retained the specialized farming meaning.
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