What's the difference between larrup and thrash?

Larrup


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat or flog soundly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.53pm BST First set: *Djokovic 3-4 Nadal (*denotes server) After Nadal goes ahead in the game, Djokovic larrups a dismissive forehand, then another, low and hard, forces another error.
  • (2) 42 min: Lassana Diarra goes on a surging gallop into French territory, only to run into a stout challenge from Sean St Ledger, who larrups the ball up the pitch.
  • (3) The ball was prodded through to him rushing into the inside-right channel but his half-volley, larruped with his laces, flies wide.
  • (4) 1.18pm GMT 31 min: Cisse takes a larrup from nigh on 30 yards.
  • (5) Bezus latches onto a ball on the edge of the box and larrups a shot just wide of Lloris's post.

Thrash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
  • (3) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
  • (4) Yet this was actually City’s second 4-1 beating in their last six league games, following on from the game at Tottenham Hotspur on 26 September, and it finished with their heaviest home defeat since a 5-1 thrashing against Arsenal at Maine Road in February 2003.
  • (5) So new newspaper enemies turn against the BBC, thrashing around for someone to blame for the danger newspapers are in.
  • (6) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
  • (7) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (8) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (9) Courtney Love recently had some of the SuicideGirls on her MTV special, while 70 of them featured in the video for the latest offering from Dave Grohl's thrash metal side-project, Probot.
  • (10) During talks to thrash out his reform package on Wednesday, treasury minister Giulio Tremonti reportedly told Berlusconi that he was Italy's real problem.
  • (11) Previously it only had to move refugees towards Macedonia; now it has to address their cases directly, and potentially house them for days or weeks while logistics with Turkey are thrashed out.
  • (12) Some analysts interpreted the Kenyan atrocity as a sign of weakness, the thrashings of a dying animal.
  • (13) At the inaugural meeting of the Human Brain Project earlier this month, researchers from more than 80 European institutions converged on the Lausanne campus to thrash out who would contribute to what platform.
  • (14) Arsenal will be Everton’s opponents in Saturday night’s final after they thrashed a Singapore XI 4-0 .
  • (15) Details of the property tax and water rates have also been thrashed out with the IMF, which is in favour of restricting extra income taxes in favour of higher taxes on consumption and wealth Mass meetings in Dublin have drawn protesters from across the country and several prominent members of the Irish and European parliaments.
  • (16) They leave the Tories relieved, Labour saying it could have been worse, Ukip alive if going nowhere and the Liberal Democrats barely out of their concussion from last year’s election thrashing.
  • (17) I don’t think he got a fair trial, but that is something we will have to thrash out at appeal,” Robinson told the Guardian, after giving a seminar on the case to law students at Nottingham University on Thursday night.
  • (18) There’s a lot we can take from them.” For now, all they have to show for brushes with Spurs is a pair of sound thrashings, and eight goals shipped en route, and it has been Kane who has revelled in the fixture most of all.
  • (19) I had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track.
  • (20) BAE and EADS are working to a deadline of 10 October deadline to thrash out a deal.

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