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THRESH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give a thrashing to; beat hard

Synonyms:

flail; lam; thrash; thresh

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "thresh" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Verb group:

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to thresh the prisoners

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beat the seeds out of a grain

Synonyms:

thrash; thresh

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "thresh" is one way to...):

beat (hit repeatedly)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to thresh his opponent

Derivation:

thresher (a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw)

threshing (the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "thresh" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thresh"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Move like a flail; thresh about

Example:

Her arms were flailing

Synonyms:

flail; thresh

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "thresh" is one way to...):

beat; flap (move with a flapping motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

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