thrash vs thresh

thrash

verb
  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour. 

  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result. 

  • In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system. 

  • To beat mercilessly. 

  • To thresh. 

noun
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating. 

  • thrash metal 

thresh

verb
  • To violently toss the limbs about. 

  • To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub. 

  • To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. 

How often have the words thrash and thresh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )