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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:
- Think of thrash as a term for wild, erratic movement, much like thrashing about in anger or pain.
- On the other hand, thresh is more orderly, as it refers to removing seeds from plants, which is a specific, purposeful action.
- Thrash often involves energetic and uncontrolled movements, which is quite different from the methodical and systematic action implied by thresh.
- You might imagine thrash as the chaotic movement of thrashing a guitar during a rock concert.
- Conversely, thresh can be visualized as the gentle beating on the wheat to separate the grain.
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