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- Dictionarythresh/θrɛʃ/
verb
- 1. separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism: "machinery that can reap and thresh corn in the same process"
- 2. move violently; thrash: "a creature threshing in a net"
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Thresh means to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of thresh with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
- English (US)
THRESH meaning: 1. to remove the seeds of crop plants by...
- Thresh: Ukrainian Translation
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- Thresh: Polish Translation
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- Thresh Turkish Translation
THRESH translate: harman dövmek. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Thresh: Indonesian Translation
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- Thresh Spanish Translation
THRESH translate: trillar, trillar. Learn more in the...
- Thresh: Thai Translation
thresh translate: นวดข้าว. Learn more in the Cambridge...
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- English (US)
Thresh is a verb that means to separate seed from a harvested plant mechanically or to strike repeatedly. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries.
Thresh means to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, see translations and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Thresh definition: to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine. . See examples of THRESH used in a sentence.
To thresh is to harvest seeds from grain by beating or crushing it. Before the invention of machines to do this task, it took a huge amount of time to thresh grain by hand. To make this tedious task go faster, farmers used to thresh in groups, throwing threshing bees where neighbors worked together.
Thresh is a verb that means to separate grains from plants or to move violently. Learn how to pronounce it, see examples and synonyms, and check its origin and grammar.
Thresh means to beat or rub cereal plants to separate the grains from the husks and straw. It can also mean to beat or strike something or someone, or to toss and turn. See word origin, synonyms, pronunciation and sentences.