Difference between Thresh and Thrash

What is the difference between Thresh and Thrash?

Thresh as a verb is to separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. while Thrash as a verb is to beat mercilessly.

Thresh

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To beat mercilessly.To defeat utterly.To thresh.To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A beat or blow; the sound of beating.A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

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