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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | throw |
| Synonyms: | bung, cast, chuck, chunk, fire, fling, flip, heave, hurl, launch, lob, peg, pitch, project, propel, sling, twirl, wing |
| Antonyms: | catch |
| Main Entry: | agitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shake physically |
| Synonyms: | beat, churn, concuss, convulse, disturb, rock, rouse, stir, toss |
| Antonyms: | calm, lull, quiet, soothe, tranquilize |
| Main Entry: | billow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surge |
| Synonyms: | balloon, belly, bloat, bounce, bulge, ebb and flow, heave, pitch, puff up, ripple, rise and fall, rise up, rock, roll, swell, toss, undulate, wave |
| Main Entry: | bunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hit half-heartedly |
| Synonyms: | butt, lay it down, meet, sacrifice, throw, toss |
| Main Entry: | butt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bang up against with head |
| Synonyms: | batter, buck, buffet, bump, bunt, collide, gore, hook, horn, jab, knock, poke, prod, punch, push, ram, run into, shove, smack, strike, thrust, toss |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a throw to the side |
| Synonyms: | casting, ejection, expulsion, fling, flinging, heave, heaving, hurl, hurling, launching, lob, lobbing, pitch, pitching, projection, propulsion, shooting, sling, slinging, thrust, thrusting, toss, tossing |
| Antonyms: | catch, keeping, retention |
| 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: | churn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, beat |
| Synonyms: | agitate, boil, bubble, convulse, ferment, foam, froth, jolt, moil, seethe, simmer, stir up, swirl, toss |
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