Synonyms for thresh
verb
To free grain or seed from hulls
flail, tread, separate, winnow, sift, thrash, beat, garner; see also beat 2.
To chastise
trounce, whip, hit; see beat 2, punish.
See thresh in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw:
flail, thrash. See attack, strikeTo hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash. (Informal) lambaste. (Slang) clobber. Idiom: rain blows on. See attack, strikeTo swing about or strike at wildly:
flail, thrash, toss. Idiom: toss and turn. See attack, move, strike
phrasal verb thresh out or
overTo speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about:
bandy (about), discuss, moot, talk over, thrash out (or over), toss around. (Informal) hash (over), kick around, knock about (or around). (Slang) rap3. Idiom: go into a huddle. See words
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