Usually means: Cast or directed something forcefully.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. threw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. threw: Merriam-Webster
  3. threw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. threw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. threw: Collins English Dictionary
  6. threw: Vocabulary.com
  7. Threw, threw: Wordnik
  8. threw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. threw: Wiktionary
  10. threw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. threw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. threw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. threw: Dictionary.com
  14. threw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Threw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. threw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Threw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. threw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. threw: FreeDictionary.org
  20. threw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. threw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. threw: Legal dictionary

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  1. threw: Encyclopedia

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  1. threw: Medical dictionary

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  2. threw: Idioms

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  1. threw: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
verb:  (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
verb:  (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
verb:  (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
verb:  (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
verb:  (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
verb:  (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
verb:  (transitive) To imprison.
verb:  (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
verb:  (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
verb:  (transitive, bridge) To discard.
verb:  (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
verb:  (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
verb:  (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
verb:  (transitive) To project or send forth.
verb:  To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
verb:  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.
verb:  (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
verb:  (transitive) To install (a bridge).
verb:  (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
verb:  (American football) Synonym of pass
verb:  (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
verb:  (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
noun:  The act of throwing something.
noun:  (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
noun:  One’s ability to throw.
noun:  The distance travelled by something thrown.
noun:  The flight of a thrown object.
noun:  A distance travelled in general; displacement.
noun:  A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
noun:  (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
noun:  (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
noun:  (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
noun:  (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of throe. [A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.]
verb:  Obsolete spelling of throe. [(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.]
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