Thresh

  • 71thrash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. beat, spank, whip, flog, strike; defeat, overcome, conquer; thresh. See success, punishment. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To beat] Syn. trounce, flog, flail; see beat 2 , punish . 2. [To toss about] Syn …

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  • 72threshold — [OE] The first element of threshold is identical with English thresh [OE]. This seems to go back ultimately to a prehistoric source that denoted ‘making noise’ (the apparently related Old Church Slavonic tresku meant ‘crash’, and Lithuanian has… …

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  • 73thrash — [[t]θræʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to beat soundly in punishment; flog 2) to defeat thoroughly 3) to beat or move wildly or violently; flail 4) thresh 5) to toss or plunge about wildly or violently 6) thresh 7) phv thrash out or over, to talk over thoroughly …

    From formal English to slang

  • 74threshold — [OE] The first element of threshold is identical with English thresh [OE]. This seems to go back ultimately to a prehistoric source that denoted ‘making noise’ (the apparently related Old Church Slavonic tresku meant ‘crash’, and Lithuanian has… …

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  • 75Thrash — Thrash, Thresh Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. [thorn]reskja …

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  • 76Thrashed — Thrash Thrash, Thresh Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel.… …

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  • 77Thrashing — Thrash Thrash, Thresh Thresh, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thrashing}.] [OE. [thorn]reschen, [thorn]reshen, to beat, AS. [thorn]erscan, [thorn]rescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel.… …

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  • 78thrash — I. verb Etymology: alteration of thresh Date: 1568 transitive verb 1. to separate the seeds of from the husks and straw by beating ; thresh 1 2. a. to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip ; flog b …

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  • 79Threshold House — Infobox record label name = Threshold House image bg = black parent = founded = 1987 2003 (LOCI) 2003 present(THRESH THBKK) founder = John Balance, Peter Christopherson status = distributor = genre = Industrial, Experimental country = Thailand… …

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  • 80Threshing-board — A threshing board is an obsolete farm implement used to separate cereals from their straw; that is, to thresh. It is a thick board, made with a variety of slats, with a shape between rectangular and trapezoidal, with the frontal part somewhat… …

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