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  • verbbeat
  • verbthrash

synonyms for thresh

  • assail
  • assault
  • bang
  • bash
  • baste
  • bat
  • batter
  • belabor
  • belt
  • box
  • break
  • bruise
  • buffet
  • cane
  • castigate
  • clout
  • club
  • collide
  • crush
  • cudgel
  • drub
  • flagellate
  • flail
  • flog
  • hammer
  • hit
  • knock
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lick
  • maltreat
  • mash
  • maul
  • pelt
  • pound
  • pummel
  • punch
  • punish
  • ram
  • rap
  • slap
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • spank
  • strike
  • swat
  • thrash
  • thump
  • thwack
  • trounce
  • wallop
  • whale
  • whip
  • rain blows on
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antonyms for thresh

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  • compliment
  • fail
  • fix
  • let go
  • lose
  • mend
  • praise
  • protect
  • surrender
  • tap
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How to use thresh in a sentence

The farmer caught up a huge flail with which he was wont to thresh out his oats.
HUNTED AND HARRIEDR.M. BALLANTYNE
"I want to thresh out some things with you to-day, and I'll be as brief as possible," said Bassett when he and Harwood were alone.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
Be sensible; stack what you can, but don't wait to thresh or grind.
THE RECKONINGROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Some of the big harvesters that cut and thresh the wheat are drawn by a traction-engine instead of horses.
STORIES OF CALIFORNIAELLA M. SEXTON
Nevertheless, 260 no one could have persuaded her not to go on and thresh the matter out with those who had sought to injure her.
MARJORIE DEAN COLLEGE FRESHMANPAULINE LESTER
When hooked it took line with a rush, began to thresh half out, and presently sounded.
TALES OF FISHESZANE GREY
The fish sounded and ran in on me, then darted here and there, then began to leap and thresh upon the surface.
TALES OF FISHESZANE GREY
To thresh grain upon the barn floor with a flail day after day needs much physical endurance.
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORSWILLIAM A. MOWRY
It is said to cut an area of a hundred acres a day, and at the same time thresh the grain and fill fifteen hundred sacks.
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORSWILLIAM A. MOWRY
A new machine should be set up and run for a couple of hours before attempting to thresh any grain.
FARM ENGINES AND HOW TO RUN THEMJAMES H. STEPHENSON
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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