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English

Etymology

Old English þrescan

Pronunciation

: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛʃ|-ɛʃ

Verb

To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

Translations

Italian: trebbiare
Portuguese: malhar

Swedish: tröska

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
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I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
--Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by
machines. --H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Thresh \Thresh\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Threshed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Threshing.]
Same as Thrash.
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He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
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WordNet thresh
v 1: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh about, thrash,
thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]
2: move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
[syn: flail]
3: beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thrash]
4: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, lam, flail]

Moby Dictionary
bang , baste , batter , beat , bolt , buffet , cordon , cordon off ,
cull out , divide , drub , flail , flap , ghettoize , gin , hammer ,
insulate , isolate , keep apart , keep aside , knock , lambaste , larrup ,
lay aside , maul , paste , patter , pelt , pick out , pommel , pound ,
pulverize , pummel , put aside , quarantine , rap , riddle , screen ,
seclude , segregate , separate , set apart , set aside , sieve , sift ,
sledgehammer , sort out , spank , thrash , thump , wallop , whip ,
winnow