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thresh about

v. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]

Usage examples of "thresh about".

Had the accompanying Kessentai, flying five or six meters above and slightly behind the party, checked his instruments they might have told him there were wild thresh about.

At the second note, they began to thresh about, imprisoned even more deeply by the bestiality of their own natures.

Simmonds came out of the stupor at the first twinge, to thresh about violently and howl piteously.

Then, with a raucous, deafening cry, it began to thresh about as in some stupendous convulsion, and the men were thrown violently from side to side in the tossing pouch.

Suddenly, one of the captives cried out, and all three began to thresh about violently, trying to get into the open where they would be seen.

Every time his shield touched Pyaray, it created some sort of wound so that the Chaos Lord begun to thresh about dreadfully.

Every three to six hours, when he would begin to thresh about, they would give him another pressure shot of heroin: It seemed that that was all that kept his bean going.

And even when dead it had continued to thresh about the sand, giant muscles spurred by ungoverned reflexes.

DeBeckett was dying in a pain that once would have been unbearable and even now caused him to thresh about sometimes and moan.