Thesaurus:throw

Thesaurus

throw

English

Verb

Sense: to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

Synonyms

• cast
• chuck
• feck
• fling
• hurl
• hurtle (archaic or literary)
• launch
• lob
• pitch
• shy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• skew (Northumberland, Yorkshire)
• sling
• throw
• toss

See also

• bowl
• cast
• discard
• dump
• heave
• peg
• scatter
• sprinkle
• splash
• upcast - obsolete

Work to be done

The above words all need linking to this entry.

Further reading

• “284. propulsion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “throw” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.