1
as in to twitch
to make jerky or restless movements
the poor dog threshed against his chain
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as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
he threshed the whimpering dog with his cane
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Recent Examples of thresh
On the precipice For all their importance to the smooth running of nature’s threshing machine, vultures themselves are being mowed under at an alarming rate.
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Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them.
—oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2019
The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun.
—New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
Vintage tractors, trucks, cars and motorcycles will be on display, and there will be a Parade of Power, tractor pulls and demonstrations of threshing, horse plowing, butter churning, blacksmithing and more.
—Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
Subrat Chandra Gayen, another resident of Joymoni, said nearly 80 percent of families have had to give up on rice farming, which once provided food and an income for most people in the area, including women who sowed, harvested, and threshed it.
—Manipadma Jena, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
In the San Joaquin Valley, beans are harvested by a machine called Big Bertha, which can pick and thresh fifty thousand pounds a day.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
Deuteronomy 25:4 prohibits the muzzling of an ox that is threshing.
—Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
Sometimes scenes of hunting, netting fish, herding and butchering animals, threshing grain and other farming activities were carved or painted directly onto tomb walls, as in the exquisite murals at the ancient burial grounds at Saqqara near Cairo.
—Salima Ikram, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thresh
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In the video, the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots.—
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The elephant is now decidedly less friendly, and is doing far more than twitching and grunting.—
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The flames licked at the neighborhood’s outskirts, toasting a few leaves at the perimeter, but didn’t damage a single residence in the community.—
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As Ferrell resumed singing with Johansson, Kardashian and Gasteyer, Wiig proceeded to lick Dooneese’s tiny hands and stroke Johansson’s face, tap on one of Gasteyer’s breasts and pretend to play the drums on Kardashian’s butt.—
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The day before the crash that took his life, BB tossed three touchdowns in a 64-6 rout of Custer County.—
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The water on one side of the beach and the Pacific Coast Highway on the other help impede fire spread, but strong gusts—like last month’s infamous Santa Ana winds—can still toss embers and flaming debris across the highway.—
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This brass was crushed in a flattened oval around the dog’s neck, as though it had been pounded with a hammer.—
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There are surely similarities to sectors such as domestic manufacturing and agriculture, which were also pounded by global competition, technological disruption and automation.—
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Rosenkrantz is played in the two-hander by Rebecca Hall with warmth and humor and a physical ease that makes Linda much more centered and self-contained than Whishaw’s chain-smoking, often fidgeting Peter.—
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Closed, tight arms can convey anger or resentment, and slouching, fidgeting and a limp handshake might convey a lack of confidence.—
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Eleven of his assists that season came from the right, and nine were whipped across in that fashion.—
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Miller was struck in the temple, whipping his hat off his head.—
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One, shown against Fulham below when Pope allowed Emile Smith Rowe’s weak shot to squirm under him, was particularly costly.—
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The women start to squirm when Silky Johnson (Dave Chappelle) comes out in a mink coat holding a golden goblet.—
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His wife, Avital, who was seven months pregnant at the time, hid in a safe room with their two daughters.—
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Dylan notices the slogan and examines the poster to find that Irv hid his drawing of the Exports Hall, with detailed instructions on how to get there written on the back, behind it.—
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“Thresh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thresh. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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