[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine threshing machine.", "to beat as if with a flail."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to thresh wheat, grain, etc.", "to deliver blows as if with a flail."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act of threshing."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["thrash(def12) thrash(def12)."]}]