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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
flail |
| VERB: | 1. To beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw: thrash, thresh. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 2. To swing about or strike at wildly: thrash, thresh, toss. Idioms: toss and turn. See ATTACK, MOVE, STRIKE. |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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