THRESH Synonyms: 130 Similar and Opposite Words

thresh

verb

ˈthresh

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as in to twitch

to make jerky or restless movements the poor dog threshed against his chain

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as in to lick

to strike repeatedly he threshed the whimpering dog with his cane

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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 Deuteronomy 25:4 prohibits the muzzling of an ox that is threshing. —

Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018

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Here, American fighter planes, cargo ships and Japanese freighters have spent decades transforming into thriving artificial reefs, draped in coral and surrounded by twitching clouds of tropical fish.

— Dea Jusufi, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Pebbles twitched, branches waggled, cholla wiggled, weeds erupted then dried up and died.

— Alina Hartounian, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026