- threshing - the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw; "they used to do the threshing by hand but now there are machines to do it"
--1 is a kind of separation
Derived form: verb thresh3
- convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate - move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
--1 is one way to shake, agitate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- flail, thresh - move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
--2 is one way to beat, flap
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- thrash, thresh - beat the seeds out of a grain
--3 is one way to beat
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun thresher1, noun threshing1
The fighter managed to thresh his opponent
- thrash, thresh, lam, flail - give a thrashing to; beat hard
--4 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to thresh the prisoners