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threshing out

threshing out is the present participle and gerund of thresh out.

Meaning of thresh out

Verb

thresh out (third-person singular simple present threshes out, present participle threshing out, simple past and past participle threshed out)

  1. (literally, transitive) To extract or remove by threshing.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To thrash out.

Questions about threshing out

What is threshing out the present participle and gerund of?
Threshing out is the present participle and gerund of thresh out.

Words near threshing out in the dictionary

  1. threshing boards
  2. threshing floor
  3. threshing floors
  4. threshing machine
  5. threshing machines
  6. threshing out
  7. threshing roller
  8. threshing rollers
  9. threshing sled
  10. threshing sledge
  11. threshing sledges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: threshing out (page history and authors); thresh out (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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