Synonyms of the word

thresh

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
• v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

agitate

• v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
• v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
• v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
• v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

convulse

• v. (transitive) To violently shake or agitate.
• v. (transitive) To create great laughter.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the…

flail

• n. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece…
• n. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint…
• v. (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
• v. (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To thresh.
• v. (intransitive) To move like a flail.

flap

• n. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
• n. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
• n. A hinged leaf.
• n. A side fin of a ray - also termed a wing.
• n. An upset, stir, scandal or controversy.
• n. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
• n. A disease in the lips of horses.
• n. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard…
• n. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
• n. (slang, chiefly plural) The female genitals.
• v. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
• v. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
• v. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as…

jactitate

• v. (rare, intransitive) To move about restlessly.

lam

• n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
• v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
• v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
• n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

shake

• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
• v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
• v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
• v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
• v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
• v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
• n. The act of shaking something.
• n. A milkshake.
• n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
• n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
• n. (building material) A thin shingle.
• n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
• n. A fissure in rock or earth.
• n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
• n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
• n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
• n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
• n. A shook of staves and headings.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

slash

• n. A slashing action or motion, particularly.
• n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly.
• n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly.
• n. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left…
• n. Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon shipping characters.
• v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly.
• v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly.
• v. To move quickly and violently.
• v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• v. (US and Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…
• v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
• adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
• conj. (US and Canada) Used to list alternatives.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
• n. (Britain, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
• v. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
• n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical…

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…