thresh about

Questions about thresh about

What does thresh about mean?

thresh about means "move or stir about violently".

What is another word for thresh about?

Close synonyms include convulse, thresh, thrash, thrash about, slash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thresh about a common word?

thresh about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.