To flog or beat with a knout.
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
To thresh.
To defeat utterly.
To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
To beat mercilessly.
A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
thrash metal