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Meanings of Throw-on:
phrasal verbTo quickly put clothes on
Usage examples:
She threw on her jacket.
Throw-oneself
θrəʊMeanings of Throw-oneself:
phrasal verbTo make it very obvious to someone that you want a sexual relationship with them
Usage examples:
I don't know what it is about john, but women just seem to throw themselves at him.
Meanings of Throw-oneself-into:
idiomTo do something enthusiastically
Usage examples:
She’s thrown herself into this new job.
Throw-over
θrəʊMeanings of Throw-over:
phrasal verbTo finish a relationship with someone and start one with another person
Usage examples:
Throw someone over for someone she threw him over for a richer man.
Meanings of Throw-to-the-lions:
idiomTo put someone, or allow someone to be put, into a very unpleasant or difficult situation without helping them, especially as a way of protecting yourself
Usage examples:
He accused his former colleagues of throwing him to the lions., in my opinion, he was thrown to the…
Meanings of Throw-together:
phrasal verbTo suddenly put people or things in one place without much planning
Usage examples:
We were thrown together at a conference., i just threw the cake together at the last minute (= made…
Meanings of Throw-up:
idiomEject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
phrasal verbVomit.
Usage examples:
I leaned over and threw up again
Meanings of Throwaway-line:
nounA remark that sounds unimportant because of the way the speaker says it
Meanings of Throwaways:
nounA thing intended to be discarded after brief use.
Usage examples:
The song is hardly even a throwaway
adjectiveDenoting or relating to products that are intended to be discarded after being used once or a few times.
Usage examples:
A throwaway camera
Meanings of Throwbacks:
nounA reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic.
Usage examples:
The eyes could be an ancestral throwback
Meanings of Throwers:
nounA person who throws something.
Usage examples:
He is a good thrower of the ball
Throwing
θrəʊMeanings of Throwing:
verbPropel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand.
Usage examples:
I threw a brick through the window
nounAn act of throwing something.
Usage examples:
Holding's throw hit the stumps
Throwing-away
θrəʊMeanings of Throwing-away:
phrasal verbTo get rid of something by treating it as garbage
Usage examples:
When are you going to throw away those old magazines?
Throwing-out
θrəʊMeanings of Throwing-out:
phrasal verbTo get rid of something by treating it as garbage
Usage examples:
Throw it out!, i threw out everything we didn’t eat., i threw him out of my house.
Throwing-up
θrəʊMeanings of Throwing-up:
phrasal verbTo vomit
Usage examples:
He threw up all over his shoes., i fed the baby some fruit, but she threw it up.
Meanings of Thrown:
verbPropel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand.
Usage examples:
I threw a brick through the window
nounAn act of throwing something.
Usage examples:
Holding's throw hit the stumps
Meanings of Thrown-away:
phrasal verbTo get rid of something by treating it as garbage
Usage examples:
When are you going to throw away those old magazines?
Meanings of Thrown-together:
phrasal verbTo suddenly put people or things in one place without much planning
Usage examples:
We were thrown together at a conference., i just threw the cake together at the last minute (= made…
Meanings of Throwoff:
nounThe release of the hounds at the start of a hunt.
Throws
θrəʊMeanings of Throws:
verbPropel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand.
Usage examples:
I threw a brick through the window
nounAn act of throwing something.
Usage examples:
Holding's throw hit the stumps
Meanings of Throwst:
verbTo process (silk) for use in textile manufacture by twisting silk filaments into raw silk, or by twisting together two or more single threads or yarns of silk to form silk thread or yarn.
Throwster
ˈθrəʊstəMeanings of Throwster:
nounA person who twists silk fibres into thread.
Usage examples:
In a survey of the florentine silk industry in 1663, 78 per cent of adult weavers were women, as we…
Thrum
θrʌmMeanings of Thrum:
verbMake a continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The boat's huge engines thrummed in his ears
nounA continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The steady thrum of rain on the windows
Thrumming
θrʌmMeanings of Thrumming:
verbMake a continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The boat's huge engines thrummed in his ears
nounA continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The steady thrum of rain on the windows
Meanings of Thrums:
verbMake a continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The boat's huge engines thrummed in his ears
nounA continuous rhythmic humming sound.
Usage examples:
The steady thrum of rain on the windows
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