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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw forcefully |
| Synonyms: | bung, cast, chuck, chunk, fire, fling, gun, heave, launch, let fly, lob, peg, pitch, project, propel, send, sling, toss |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw aside |
| Synonyms: | boot, bung, chuck, drive, drop, fire*, fling, heave, hurl, impel, launch, lob, peg, pitch, project, shed, shy, sling, thrust, toss |
| Antonyms: | catch, gather |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chuck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw aside, throw away, throw out |
| Synonyms: | abandon, can, cast, desert, discard, ditch, eighty-six, eject, fire, fling, flip, forsake, give the heave ho, heave, hurl, jettison, junk, launch, pitch, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, scrap, shed, shy, sling, slough, toss |
| Antonyms: | keep |
| Main Entry: | dash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break by hitting or throwing violently |
| Synonyms: | beat, bludgeon, cast, charge, crash, cudgel, destroy, fling, hit, hurl, hurtle, lunge, plunge, shatter, shiver, slam, sling, smash, splash, splatter, splinter, throw |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, encourage, help, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | administer; throw |
| Synonyms: | aim, deal, direct, dispatch, fling, give, hurl, inflict, launch, pitch, send, strike, transmit |
| Main Entry: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move or urge on |
| Synonyms: | act upon, actuate, animate, arouse, bulldoze, chase, coerce, compel, constrain, dog*, egg on, encourage, force, goad, goose, harass, hasten, herd, hound, hurl, hurry, hustle, impel, induce, inspire, instigate, kick, lean on, make, motivate, nag, oblige, overburden, overwork, pound, press, pressure, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put up to, railroad, ride herd on, rouse, rush, send, shepherd, shove, spirit up, spur, steamroll, stimulate, work on, worry |
| Antonyms: | check, curb, discourage, dissuade, halt, repress, retard, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | erupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give forth, eject with force |
| Synonyms: | appear, belch, blow up, boil, break out, burst, cast out, detonate, discharge, emit, eruct, explode, extravasate, flare up, go off, gush, hurl, jet, pour forth, rupture, spew, spit, spout, spurt, throw off, touch off, vent, vomit |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | detonate or throw a weapon |
| Synonyms: | cast, discharge, eject, explode, fling, heave, hurl, launch, let off, loose, pitch, pull trigger, set off, shell, shoot, toss, touch off |
| Main Entry: | fling |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw with abandon |
| Synonyms: | cast, catapult, chuck, dump, fire, heave, hurl, jerk, launch, let fly, lob, peg, pitch, precipitate, propel, send, shy*, sling, toss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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