thresh

Verb

Verb Forms: threshed, threshing, threshes

To separate grain or seeds from a plant.
move or stir about violently
move like a flail; thresh about
beat the seeds out of a grain
give a thrashing to; beat hard
To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery, or by driving animals over them.
To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
To violently toss the limbs about.

Examples

He tried to THRESH out a winning strategy from his remaining tiles.

Origin / Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.?
Proto-Germanic *þreskaną
Old English þrescan
Middle English threschen
English thresh
From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną.
Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German dörschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske, Swedish tröska, Yiddish דרעשן (dreshn). Doublet of thrash.

Synonyms

convulse, flail, jactitate, lam, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss

Scrabble Score: 12

thresh: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
thresh: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thresh: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

thresh: valid Words With Friends Word