thresh
1. move or stir about violently (Freq. 1)
- The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
• Syn:
convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash,
toss, jactitate
• Derivationally related forms:
jactitation (for: jactitate), toss (for: toss), thrash (for: thrash)
• Hypernyms:
shake, agitate
• Hyponyms:
whip
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
2. give a thrashing to;
beat hard
• Syn:
thrash, lam, flail
• Derivationally related forms:
flail (for: flail), thrashing (for: thrash)
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat up, work over
• Verb Group:
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to thresh the prisoners
3. move like a flail;
thresh about
- Her arms were flailing
• Syn:
flail
• Hypernyms:
beat, flap
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
4. beat the seeds out of a grain
• Syn:
thrash
• Derivationally related forms:
thresher, threshing, thrasher (for: thrash)
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
beat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- The fighter managed to thresh his opponent
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