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Verb: thresh  thresh
  1. Move or stir about violently
    - convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
     
  2. Move like a flail; thresh about
    - flail
     
  3. Beat the seeds out of a grain
    - thrash
     
  4. Give a thrashing to; beat hard
    - thrash, lam, flail

Derived forms: threshed, threshing, threshes

See also: thresher, threshing

Type of: agitate, beat, beat up, flap, shake, work over

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