'Thresh' definitions:

Definition of 'thresh'

(from WordNet)
verb
Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]
verb
Move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" [syn: flail, thresh]
verb
Beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thrash, thresh]
verb
Give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail]

Definition of 'Thresh'

From: GCIDE
  • Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t.
  • 1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. [1913 Webster]
  • I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Thresh'

From: GCIDE
  • Thrash \Thrash\, Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja, Sw. tr["o]ska, Dan. t[ae]rske, Goth. [thorn]riskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. Thresh.]
  • 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. [1913 Webster]
  • The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub. [1913 Webster] Thrash

Definition of 'Thresh'

From: GCIDE
  • Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed; p. pr. & vb. n. Threshing.] Same as Thrash. [1913 Webster]
  • He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'thresh'

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