threw
Meaning of threw
verb
- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- To take heed.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
throw the switch
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
- To intentionally lose a game.
The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
- To confuse or mislead.
The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
- To send desperately.
Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
- To imprison.
The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- To roll (a die or dice).
- To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- To discard.
- To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- To install (a bridge).
- To twist or turn.
a thrown nail
verb
(said of animals) To give birth to.
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Hyphenation of threw
threw
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- threw is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
threw synonyms
Meaning :
spend, pledge, promise, vow, bowl, bung, buzz, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, direct, fire, fling, flip, heave, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, project, propel, send, shoot, shy, sling, toss, whang, eject, displace, relocate
Anagrams of threw
Words that rhyme with threw
beshrew, hardishrew, shrew, unshrew, misthrew, outthrew, overthrew, preoverthrew, upthrew
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