The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word THRASHES which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 1999.
Flails away at crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| THRASHES | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Flails away at
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- flail
- glint
- humble
- humbled
- humbling
- precession
- thresher
- hack
- hacking
- wave
- yaws
- lash
Crossword Answer definitions
THRASHES noun- A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
- Thrash metal
- To beat mercilessly.
- To defeat utterly.
- To thresh.
- To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
- To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
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