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thrash ~ thresh ~ thrush

[different pronunciation: the vowel ‘a’ in ‘thrash’ rhymes with the ‘a’ in “hat”, the vowel ‘e’ in ‘thresh’ rhymes with ‘e’ in “pen” and the vowel ‘u’ in ‘thrush’ rhymes with the ‘u’ in “but”]

“Thrash”, as a verb, is ‘to move oneself or to make something or someone move from side to side in an uncontrolled way because of pain or some other discomfort or restlessness due to anxiety; to hit/beat a person or animal repeatedly very hard with a stick in order to punish them; to beat/defeat an opponent very easily in a game’; as a noun, it is ‘a violent movement from side to side; a loud noisy party’,

e.g.

The poor mother was unable to bear to see her sick son thrash in pain.

In the past pupils were thrashed even for simple lapses like not doing their homework.

In the Hockey League Tournament Blue Birds team thrashed Bull Horns team 3-0.

The thrash of waves made it impossible for the passengers on boat to hear one another.

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“Thresh” (verb) is ‘to separate grains of corn, wheat, rice, etc. from the stalks (the stems) by beating them against a hard surface or with a special tool/device or a machine called ‘thresher’; to make or cause to make something else move violently {in this sense “thresh” is synonymous, i.e. giving similar meaning, with “thrash”}’,

e.g.

Farmers like to thresh their crops as soon as the harvest them.

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“Thrush” (noun) is ‘a bird with a brown back and brown spots on the chest (and with other colours, too); an infectious disease that affects a person’s mouth and throat, and a female sexual organ (vagina)’,

e.g.

Our garden is full of different types of birds — robin, blackbird, thrush, etc.

Bathers in contaminated waters risk getting skin allergies and oral or genital thrush.    (thrush = disease)

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