THRESH ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thresh about mean? 

• THRESH ABOUT (verb)
  The verb THRESH ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. move or stir about violently

  Familiarity information: THRESH ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRESH ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Context example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Hypernyms (to "thresh about" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "thresh about"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s