Verb: thresh thresh
- (farming) beat the seeds out of a grain
"Farmers used to thresh grain by hand";
- thrash
- Beat hard and repeatedly, esp. with a whip, cane, etc.
"They threshed the wheat to separate the grain";
- thrash, lam [informal], flail
- Move or stir about violently
"The feverish patient threshed around in his bed"; "The fish threshed about in the net";
- convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate [rare]
- Swing or move in a random unstable way
"Her arms were threshing";
- flail
Derived forms: threshed, threshing, threshes
Type of: agitate, beat, beat up, flap, shake, work over [informal]
Encyclopedia: Thresh, Mike