thresh

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb move or stir about violently
  2. verb move like a flail; thresh about
  3. verb beat the seeds out of a grain

Etymology

From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną. Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.

In classic literature

Synonyms

convulse, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate

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