thrash about

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verb

move or stir about violently (Freq. 1)
- The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
• Syn:
convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, slash,
toss, jactitate
• Derivationally related forms:
jactitation (for: jactitate), toss (for: toss), thrash (for: thrash)
• Hypernyms:
shake, agitate
• Hyponyms:
whip
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s