Thesaurus:throw
English
Verb
Sense: to cause an object to move rapidly through the air
Synonyms
- bung (Australia, UK)
- cast
- chuck
- chunk (slang, chiefly Southern US)
- cook [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, UK dialect)
- dash [⇒ thesaurus]
- dump
- feck
- fling
- jerk [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- heave
- hield
- hoy (Northumbria, Australia)
- huck
- hurl
- hurtle (archaic or literary)
- launch
- lob
- peck (regional)
- peg (slang)
- pick (obsolete)
- pitch
- precipitate
- project
- quoit
- shy [⇒ thesaurus]
- slight
- skew (Northumberland, Yorkshire)
- sling
- thrill [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- throw
- toss
- traject
- warp (very rare, obsolete)
- whang (Australia, UK)
- whip [⇒ thesaurus]
- whop
- wing
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- bowl (cricket)
- egg
- flight (cricket)
- flip
- throw down
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “284. propulsion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “throw” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.