Difference between Beating and Thrashing

BEATING vs THRASHING: NOUN

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
Nautical, the act of advancing in a zigzag line against the wind.
In music, same as beat, 7 : but in this form more frequently applied to the beats of the strings of a piano or the pipes of an organ.
Regular pulsation or throbbing.
The state of being beaten or out-done; a defeat.
Punishment or chastisement by blows; a flogging.
The act of striking, or operating by blows; any process of working by percussion.
The periodic variation in amplitude of a wave, especially that produced by the superposition of two waves of different frequencies, resulting in segments of more intense and then less intense wave phenomena, such as louder and then quieter sound.
Pulsation; throbbing.
A sharp reversal; a setback.
A thorough defeat, as in an athletic contest.
An act of repeated hitting or striking.
The act of overcoming or outdoing
A throbbing or pulsation, as of the heart.
Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Action of the verb to beat
A heavy defeat or setback
The pulsation of the heart
The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Pounding, Defeated, Knocking, Battering, Defeating, Pummeling, Rhythmic, Rhythmical, Pulsing, Pulsating, Whacking, Drubbing, Whipping, Thrashing, Trouncing

Thumping, Poke, Lick, Kicking, Lashing, Moving, Slaughter, Flailing, Whacking, Debacle, Whipping, Beating, Walloping, Trouncing, Drubbing

Pounding, Defeated, Knocking, Battering, Defeating, Pummeling, Rhythmic, Rhythmical, Pulsing, Pulsating, Whacking, Drubbing, Whipping, Thrashing, Trouncing

Mauling, Thumping, Poke, Lick, Lashing, Moving, Slaughter, Flailing, Whacking, Debacle, Whipping, Beating, Walloping, Trouncing, Drubbing

Right side, after beating the third Mythril Giant.
Is it when its heart first starts beating?
Victorian levels of beating around the bush now.
They are beating us at trade and they are beating us at the border, and they are killing us with drugs.
In regards to the act itself, people tended to judge the act of beating the cat as less morally wrong than beating the girlfriend.
Beating cards is one action, and the player is not allowed to take cards from the stock in the middle of beating.
The only way you can be sure the groom will remember this day is by beating them, and beating them badly.
The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
The beating that had gone before was as nothing compared with the beating he now received.
Detroit and Detroit was beating us but we basically were beating ourselves.