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Thresh (Verb)

Move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing".

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

The frightened bird threshed about in the cage, desperate to escape.
Her arms threshed wildly as she lost her balance on the skateboard.
The drunk man threshed on the floor in a futile attempt to get up.
As the seizure took hold, the boy's body began to thresh violently on the bed.
The toddler threshed about in the water, struggling to swim to the side of the pool.

Beat the seeds out of a grain.

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Farmers thresh the wheat by hand, separating the grain from the chaff.
In ancient times, people used animals to thresh the grain in the fields.
The farmer attached a mechanical thresher to his tractor to thresh his crops more efficiently.
Traditional methods of threshing involved beating the grain with flails to separate the kernels from the husks.
Before modern machinery, villages would often gather to manually thresh the harvested grain.

Give a thrashing to; beat hard.

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The boxer was known for his ability to thresh his opponents with a flurry of powerful punches.
The unhappy customer began to thresh the salesman with his umbrella after being lied to.
In a fit of rage, she began to thresh her brother with her belt after he pulled off the same prank again.
The swimmer's powerful arms thresh the water with each stroke.
The dad threatened to thresh the kids if they didn't behave themselves during the family reunion.

Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed".

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

The untamed horse threshed its legs wildly as it got caught in the barbed wire.
The lightning-struck tree threshed about, its branches swaying uncontrollably.
In her nightmare, she threshed her arms and legs about as if trying to escape something.
The convulsing woman threshed around on the hospital bed, violently shaking.
As the hurricane approached, palm trees threshed about in the increasing winds.