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Thrash vs. Thresh
Thrash
/θræʃ/Examples:
The sharks thrashed wildly in the fishing net.She thrashed about in her sleep after the nightmare.Heavy metal music often features thrashing guitars.
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Thresh
/θreʃ/Examples:
Farmers thresh the wheat to remove grains from chaff.Our ancestors used flails to thresh cereal crops by hand.These machines can thresh large amounts of grain quickly.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Thrash involves forceful or repeated movement, often referring to hitting or beating.
- Thresh is more about separating grain from plants, so it's associated with agriculture.
- If there is a flurry of movement or energy, think of thrash.
- For farming or anything involving gathering grain, use thresh.
- Both words may share a similar sound, but their meanings live in different domains: physical action versus agricultural processes.
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