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🌪️ To move violently 👊 To beat hard 🏆 To defeat fully 🦵 A strong kick 🤘 To dance wildly 🌾 To remove seeds 💻 To slow down ❤️ To beat irregularly
to thrash

to thrash

1 9.2
Beat grain to separate the seeds from the plant
  • verb
  • /θræʃ/
  • Archaic
translation icon : trillar
  • A young boy thrashes wheat in Northern Afghanistan, where 153 local varietals have been identified, each cultivated without chemical fertilizers.

Examples

  • A senior citizen came to the classroom and brought illustrations and snapshots of machines thrashing bundles of grain.

    Academic text (1996)

  • First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw.

    Titus (1999)

  • Here, one needed to pull bindweed by hand, one by one, and only then to thrash them.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The peas were partly thrashed and partly in the hull.

    Blog text (2)

  • Farmers often thrash the wheat to collect the grains after the harvest.

  • After drying, they will thrash the corn to separate the kernels from the cob.

  • To prepare the barley for brewing, you need to thrash it thoroughly.

Synonyms

to thresh
vsto thrash
1 8.5

Beat grain to separate the seeds from the stalks

is broader and applies to separating seeds from plants especially grain

Phrasal Verbs

to thrash out
  • Informal
2 5.3

To discuss a problem carefully to reach a solution or agreement

to thrash about
1 6.1

Move the body violently when in pain or fear

to thrash out a compromise
5.7

Talk about things fully to reach an agreement when people disagree

How Thorough

to thrash
  • Archaic
1 9.2
to beat
  • NSFW
18 7.2

Surface Forms

thrash infinitive
thrashed past
thrashed past participle
thrashing present participle
thrashes third person singular

Etymology

Thrash originally meant 'to beat grain', the same root as thresh, and this farming meaning is the original sense: to hit plants until the seeds fall out.