thresh
verb (used with object)
to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
threshed
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past participleof thresh.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof thresh.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
threshverb (used with object)to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
Example Sentences
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Ukraine sowed a total of 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat for its 2022 crop, but only 5 million hectares could be threshed by farmers on government-controlled territory.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
He was aw-shucks Chuck, and he threshed most of his challengers with ease, often with ads that showed him tugging two mowers across his farm yard in stereo.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014
The thin dog came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and Kino looked down at it and didn’t see it.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
