Fall and Thrashing

Fall

Fall noun - The act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.

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Thrashing and fall are semantically related In some cases you can use "Thrashing" instead a noun "Fall".

Nearby Words: falling, fallen

Thrashing noun - The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.

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Fall and thrashing are semantically related in defeat topic. Sometimes you can use "Fall" instead a noun "Thrashing".

Nearby Words: thrashed, thrasher

good	good fall	good thrashing
complete	complete fall	complete thrashing
painful	painful fall	painful thrashing
heavy	heavy fall	heavy thrashing
Other adjectives: humiliating, subsequent, last.

Similarly, X-23 can fall under this trope sometimes, reverting to wildly thrashing and slashing with no apparent strategy, even though she has used expert precision in certain fights.

Source: Informed Ability / Comic Books
Someone presses a button on the Cool Chair and the hero and his sidekick nearly fall into a trapdoor from which there's a bad smell and the sound of something thrashing about.

Source: Shark Pool
A running gag is to have a wrestler take an especially harsh thrashing if a show happens to fall on their birthday, bonus points if the thrashed are a baby face and even more it is also in their hometown.

Source: A Birthday, Not a Break

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