Thesaurus:throw

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

• catch

Hyponyms

• bowl (cricket)
• egg
• flight (cricket)
• flip
• throw down

Hypernyms

• catapult
• direct
• fire
• launch
• propel
• send

Further reading

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