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How to pronounce thresh in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms flail
Type of flap, beat
Type Words
Synonyms flail, lam, thrash
Type of work over, beat, beat up
Verb group lick, thrash, clobber, cream, drub, bat
Type Words
Synonyms thrash
Type of beat
Derivation thresher, threshing
Type Words
Synonyms convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss
Type of shake, agitate
Has types whip

Examples of thresh

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Two years ago, only six races crossed the $1 million spending thresh hold.
From the dailyherald.com
It's quite popular because it's a very adaptable plant and easier to thresh than wheat.
From the independent.co.uk
A healthy Casey has shown the ability to thresh and thrash MLS defenses.
From the denverpost.com
Indian labourers thresh rice in a field at Milanmore village on the outskirts of Siliguri.
From the guardian.co.uk
Combine harvesters, so called because they both harvest and thresh the crop, are common.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The church could be used as a place to thresh and store grain.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Then you'd have to gather, thresh and grind the flour.
From the sfgate.com
So far the White House indicates that it will not take sides but let the convention thresh out a response.
From the time.com
The more plausible explanation was that they wanted time to thresh out in private conferences the agenda for the summit.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Convulse: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
  • Flail: move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
  • Thrash: beat the seeds out of a grain
  • Thrash: give a thrashing to; beat hard
  • (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"
  • Thresh may refer to: In agriculture *Threshing
  • Thresh is a free application to assist Security Engineers in tuning Snort IDS sensors. Thresh was written by Matthew Deren, co-creator of Automata Digital. It was designed in Perl-CGI and interfaces with MySQL databases.
  • Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. It is the step in grain preparation after harvesting and before winnowing, which separates the loosened chaff from the grain. ...
  • To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery; To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub