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thrashing out

thrashing out is the present participle and gerund of thrash out.

Meaning of thrash out

Verb

thrash out (third-person singular simple present thrashes out, present participle thrashing out, simple past and past participle thrashed out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To discuss something so fully as to resolve a problem or conflict; to hammer out.
    • They spent an afternoon on it, but thrashed out a solution in the end.

Questions about thrashing out

What is thrashing out the present participle and gerund of?
Thrashing out is the present participle and gerund of thrash out.

Words near thrashing out in the dictionary

  1. thrashing about
  2. thrashing floor
  3. thrashing floors
  4. thrashing machine
  5. thrashing machines
  6. thrashing out
  7. thrashing-floor
  8. thrashing-floors
  9. thrashingfloor
  10. thrashingfloors
  11. thrashings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thrashing out (page history and authors); thrash out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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