Synonyms of thresh

thresh

verb

ˈthresh 

1

as in to twitch

to make jerky or restless movements

the poor dog threshed against his chain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• twitch
• toss
• fidget
• squirm
• jerk
• fiddle
• wiggle
• writhe
• twist
• tremble
• shake
• shiver
• thrash
• wriggle
• jiggle
• jig
• flutter
• quiver
• flit
• shudder
• squiggle
• quake
• twitter
• pace

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rest
• relax
• calm (down)
• unwind
• still

2

as in to lick

to strike repeatedly

he threshed the whimpering dog with his cane

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lick
• pound
• whip
• hide
• lash
• beat
• knock
• thump
• do
• spank
• batter
• pelt
• hit
• chop
• slam
• smash
• bat
• maul
• pummel
• punch
• slap
• hammer
• thrash
• attack
• bludgeon
• baste
• assault
• belt
• paddle
• whop
• punch out
• switch
• rough (up)
• bash
• slate
• flog
• tan
• curry
• box
• tromp
• fib
• club
• drub
• whup
• birch
• lather
• raid
• smack
• pommel
• work over
• whack
• wound
• storm
• lambaste
• lace
• slog
• whale
• wallop
• buffet
• bung up
• mess (up)
• beat up on
• belabor
• swat
• clobber
• crack
• swipe
• assail
• cane
• cudgel
• clout
• lay on
• strap
• pounce (on or upon)
• rush
• paste
• jump (on)
• mangle
• beset
• lacerate
• sock
• whomp
• descend (on or upon)
• wham
• lam
• cuff
• thwack
• horsewhip
• leather
• flagellate
• scourge
• gore
• mutilate
• maim
• rawhide
• bust
• blackjack
• fustigate
• cowhide
• pistol-whip

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of thresh

The tiny sandlike seeds of the plant are threshed and pounded to remove the chaff before the grains are cooked. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Mar. 2026

The second one came to the top only a couple of yards from the raft and threw the spoon with a rolling, threshing twist of its whole body. — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025

On the precipice For all their importance to the smooth running of nature’s threshing machine, vultures themselves are being mowed under at an alarming rate. — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023

The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2019

Vintage tractors, trucks, cars and motorcycles will be on display, and there will be a Parade of Power, tractor pulls and demonstrations of threshing, horse plowing, butter churning, blacksmithing and more. — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019

In the San Joaquin Valley, beans are harvested by a machine called Big Bertha, which can pick and thresh fifty thousand pounds a day. — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018

Subrat Chandra Gayen, another resident of Joymoni, said nearly 80 percent of families have had to give up on rice farming, which once provided food and an income for most people in the area, including women who sowed, harvested, and threshed it. — Manipadma Jena, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018

Sometimes scenes of hunting, netting fish, herding and butchering animals, threshing grain and other farming activities were carved or painted directly onto tomb walls, as in the exquisite murals at the ancient burial grounds at Saqqara near Cairo. — Salima Ikram, Smithsonian, 3 Feb. 2017