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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:
- Remember that thrash contains the letter a, just like action, as it often involves vigorous action or movement.
- Thresh has an e, just like harvEst, since it involves processes related to harvesting, like separating grain.
- Both words can involve aggressive or forceful actions, but thrash is more about the motion, while thresh is specifically about processing crops.
- Think of thrash as energetic or violent movements resembling wild motion, often unrelated to farming.
- Thresh relates to a specific agricultural context, involving the separation of grain from plants.
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