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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Even with a decline of that magnitude, that would still leave about 20 million tonnes needing to be threshed and transported from July.
From Reuters ● May 25, 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
The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
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
His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
