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thresh

Pronunciation: /θɹɛʃ/

The English word “thresh” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
  2. To be so separated, or to be capable of being so separated.
  3. To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
  4. To violently toss the limbs about.
  5. To belabor; to go over repeatedly, especially an argument.
  6. To drive through adverse conditions (wind, waves).

Etymology

From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). Doublet of thrash. Cognates Cognate with Dutch dorsen (“to thresh; to thrash”), German and Luxembourgish dreschen (“to thresh; to…

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