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Object About Ill Considered Heavy Defeat Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "THRASHING" which means:
- noun
- • A sound defeat
- • The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows verb
- • To beat mercilessly.
- • To defeat utterly.
- • To thresh.
- • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- • To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- • In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
An example sentence would be:
- • "He received a thrashing from his older brother after breaking the vase."
- • "The team suffered a heavy thrashing in the championship match."
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