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Verb: thrash about
  1. Move or stir about violently
    "The fish thrashed about in the net";
    - convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, slash, toss, jactitate [rare]

Derived forms: thrashed about, thrashing about, thrashes about

Type of: agitate, shake