thresh
/θɹɛʃ/
thresh verb: to separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
Verb
thresh (third-person singular simple present threshes, present participle threshing, simple past and past participle threshed)
- To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
- To be so separated, or to be capable of being so separated.
- To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
- To violently toss the limbs about.
- The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41
- To belabor; to go over repeatedly, especially an argument.
- To drive through adverse conditions (wind, waves).
thresh meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thresh in Hindi
- to separate the grain from the straw or husks
- गाहना gāhnā
thresh in Tamil
- சூடடித்தல், கந்தடித்தல், கதிரடித்தல், போரடித்தல்
thresh in Marathi
- to separate the grain from the straw or husks
- मळणे maḷṇe
thresh in Urdu
- دھننا, کوٹنا, نکالنا
More languagesFewer languages
- thresh in Malayalam
- മെതിക്കുക
- thresh in Kannada
- ಒಕ್ಕು, ತೆನೆ ಬಡಿದು ಕಾಳು ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸು
- thresh in Arabic
- دَرَسَ darasa
- thresh in Vietnamese
- đập
Synonyms of thresh
Forms of thresh
| third-person singular present | threshes |
|---|---|
| present participle | threshing |
| past participle | threshed |
| past | threshed |
Origin of thresh
From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). Doublet of thrash. Cognates Cognate with Dutch dorsen (“to thresh; to thrash”), German and Luxembourgish dreschen (“to thresh; to thrash”), Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn, “to thresh”), Danish tærske (“to thresh”), Faroese treskja (“to thresh”), Icelandic þreskja (“to thresh”), Norwegian Nynorsk treska, treske, treskja, treskje (“to thrash”), Swedish tröska (“to thresh”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽 (þriskan, “to thresh”), Finnish rehkiä (“to drudge; to toil”); also Welsh taradr (“auger, wimble; awl, borer; drill”), Latin terō (“to rub or triturate; to wear away or wear out, consume; to tread; to press with a mill; to pass, spend”), Greek τρίβω (trívo, “to grate; to rub”), Albanian tjerr (“to spin”), Belarusian це́рці (cjérci, “to rub; to polish; to pinch; to grind”), Bulgarian три́я (tríja, “to rub; to chafe; to grind”), Czech třít (“to rub; to spawn”), Polish tarć, treć, trzeć, trzyć (“to rub; to shred; to cut; to chafe; to crush; to...
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Questions about thresh
- What does thresh mean?
- Thresh means to separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
- What is thresh in Hindi?
- Thresh in Hindi is गाहना (gāhnā). See Thresh meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is thresh?
- Thresh is a verb.
- How do you pronounce thresh?
- Thresh is pronounced /θɹɛʃ/.
- What is the past tense of thresh?
- The past tense of thresh is threshed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thresh (page history and authors); thresh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thresh (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thresh (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thresh (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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