thrash

France delivered one of their greatest Six Nations performances to thrash holders Ireland 42-27 in Dublin.

Bailey called for trade disputes to be settled via the World Trade Organization, rather than thrashed out between the US and other countries.

During this time, a peace deal could be thrashed out, while the deployment of European troops would occur in a second stage.

If the defeats in India were alarming, and losses to Australia and Afghanistan in Lahore dispiriting, the thrashing by South Africa in Karachi was the moment England's winter plunged to the depths.

Since the turn of the year it has been a shambles: the women thrashed all over Australia, the men one win from 10 in McCullum's new white-ball era.