thrashing
Definitions
The act of moving or striking about in a violent or uncontrolled way.
A state in which a computer's performance degrades due to excessive paging or swapping of data between memory and disk.
A severe physical beating or punishment.
Examples
The fish was thrashing about in the bottom of the boat after being caught.
The computer's performance slowed to a crawl because it was thrashing due to insufficient RAM.
Synonyms
beating drubbing whipping lashing flogging pummeling trouncing