thresh
🇺🇸
/θreʃ/
🇬🇧
/θreʃ/
verb
R
To separate the edible part of crops like rice or wheat from the inedible parts, usually by using a machine or a special tool.
Farmers used to thresh wheat by hand with a flail, but now they use machines to do the job more quickly.
R
To move or cause something to move in a rough or uncontrolled way.
The storm caused the trees to thresh wildly in the wind.
translation
To separate the edible part of crops like rice or wheat from the inedible parts, usually by using a machine or a special tool.; To move or cause something to move in a rough or uncontrolled way.
Word Forms
3rd Present
threshes
Past
threshed
Perfect
threshed
Progressive
threshing