Thresh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
  • v. To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
  • v. To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.
  • v. To beat severely; thrash.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a machine or flail to separate grain or seeds from straw.
  • verb-intransitive. To thrash about; toss.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
  • v. To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. Same as thrash.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In wire-drawing, to raise (a wire rod or bar of small section) high in the air and throw it heavily against a flat smooth plate on the ground in order to straighten it or to loosen the scale and dirt.
  • To beat out or separate the grain or seeds from, by means of a flail or a threshing-machine, or by treading with oxen: in this sense commonly thresh.
  • To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; drub; hence, to beat in any way: in this sense commonly thrash.
  • To practise threshing; beat out grain from straw with a flail or a threshing-machine: in this sense commonly thresh.
  • To beat about; labor; drudge; toil.
  • To throw one's self about; toss to and fro: usually with about: in this sense commonly thrash.
  • n. See thrash.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give a thrashing to; beat hard
  • v. move like a flail; thresh about
  • v. beat the seeds out of a grain
  • v. move or stir about violently
  • Verb Form
    threshed    threshes    threshing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat    work over    beat-up    flap   
    Unknown
    thrash    flail   
    Variant
    thrash   
    Form
    threshed    threshing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    thrash   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Pradesh    Ritesh    afresh    creche    enmesh    esch    esh    flesh    fresh    mesh   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tattler    thrash    winnow    sow    husking