THREW

Definition: THREW

THREW

1. Imp. of Throw.

Imperative

1. Of Throw

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "THREW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: THREW

We just rolled up a snowball and threw it into Hell (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

They threw me in the shark tank (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan)

I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

I threw away so much money (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian)

She threw back the ring (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC)

And the love you threw away (I Heard a Rumour; performing artist: Bananarama)

Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

They threw an American flag in our face (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Threw bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

When Ursus Threw the Bull (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (reference)

• Sue Threw the Goop Through the Hoop (Homophones) (reference)

• The year they threw the rascals out (reference)

• Too Good to Be Threw : The Complete Operations Manual for Consignment Shops (reference)

• Who Threw That Pie?: The Birth of Movie Comedy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Steve Threw Up [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble ... Credit: NASA.

Northwest Coast Indians deep-sixing bottle used as survey mark Bottle set by party of George Davidson in 1852 Smallpox came after surveyors left Indians felt bottle had evil spirits, dug up, and threw away. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly U.S.N. painted these pictures of the hurricane at Samoa after his retirement while he lived at 72 Perkins St. West Newton, Massachusetts. I can recall his saying that it was the swift and tremendously strong under tow that was a great factor in keeping the U.S.S. Trenton from pounding down on the sharp reefs as each wave threw her upon them. He also spoke of the spontaneous cheer of the men on the Trenton, as the Calliope drew past and went out to sea." Comments by Miss Elsie S. Kimberly, daughter of Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, concerning the sketches of the Apia hurricane that are contained in his personal journal. Credit: NAVY.

She threw herself down beside the battered little trunk and wept. Credit: Library of Congress.

Martin caught it and threw it to Bat, who was flying near the ground. Credit: Library of Congress.

Selma threw herself at full length on the ground. Credit: Library of Congress.

I didn't dream that was a giant cracker when I threw it!. Credit: Library of Congress.

If you were born in Nova Scotia -- and you clerked in the District -- and you threw a woman ... Credit: Library of Congress.

We took the black sheep by the tail and threw them out -- Khrushchev. Credit: Library of Congress.

Death unless you surrender. Here is a leaflet giving Japan's ultimatum to the Filipino people. In reply, the Filipinos threw their entire resources and manpower into the struggle on the side of the United States. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And we followed him obediently to the Ivory Door, which he threw open, and signed to me to go through first

The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast

What they threw into the sea in the East, they threw into the earth in the West

Mr Dedalus threw his knife and fork noisily on his plate

The driver munched the branded pie and threw the crust away

He then threw down several small pieces of adamant, and observed that they were all violently attracted by the top of the tower

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

Later on the same day, protestors threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the police. (references)

Ethiopia

There were credible reports that riot police attempted to disperse forcibly the protestors after some of them threw rocks at police. (references)

Bangladesh

Eyewitness accounts recorded in the local press said the attackers threw several Molotov cocktails, shot and stabbed him repeatedly and then fled the scene. (references)

Economic History

India

Internet: In 1998, the government threw open the Internet services segment to the private sector. (references)

Nigeria

However, on June 23, Babangida, using several pending lawsuits as a pretense, annulled the election and threw Nigeria into turmoil. (references)

Kiribati

In November 1943, allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

On June 21, a group of ZANU-PF youths threw stones at his house. (references)

El Salvador

Reportedly, they threw him to the floor and beat him until he was unconscious. (references)

Algeria

Police officers beat many of the detainees and threw them into the crater made by the terrorist bomb. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On May 6, unknown assailants threw a grenade at the house of the leader of Trebinje's Muslim community. (references)

Poland

In October a group of youths beat some members of the Buddhist Center of Krakow and threw stones at the building. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On January 6, two Bosnian Serb men threw an explosive device into the home of a Bosniak returnee in Bosanska Gradiska. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

Some Sahrawi youths reportedly joined the women and threw stones at police. (references)

Political Rights

Chad

In Abeche and N'Djamena Bilala, the authorities threw the observers out of all polling stations. (references)

Chad

On June 13, the Constitutional Court threw out one-third of the provisional votes cast in favor of President Deby. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "THREW": swing-threw.

Chinese 

投掷 (Darted, Darting, Pelted, Pelting, slinging, Slung, throw, Throwing, thrown, thrown-away, Throw-off). (various references)

Czech

min.èas od throw (thrown). (various references)

Farsi 

پرتاب کرد, انداخت . (various references)

French

jetai, jetâmes, jetèrent, jeta, balafre. (various references)

German

warf (chucked, pelleted, pelted, pitched), geworfen (flinged, foaled, thrown, tossed, warped, whelped). (various references)

Greek 

πέταξα, αόρ. του throw. (various references)

Hungarian

kiakaszt (hang out, thrown, to freak sy out, to hang out, to throw, to unhinge, to unhook, to zap, unhinge, unhook), eldob (cast, discard, fling away, put off, throw away, thrown, to abject, to cast away, to chuck, to chuck away, to discard, to throw, to throw away, to throw off), ellik (farrow, thrown, to drop, to farrow, to foal, to kid, to throw, to yean), földhöz csap (thrown, to floor, to lay low, to throw), földhöz vág (knock down, thrown, to floor, to knock down, to lay low, to throw), hány (how many, how many/much, how much, puke, thrown, to barf, to be sick, to cat, to dump one's load, to puke, to shoot the cat, to sputter, to throw, to throw up, to vomit, vomit), hirtelen összezavar (thrown, to throw), dobta, kölykezik (cub, thrown, to litter, to throw, to whelp, whelp), vet (cast, hove, launch, project, sow, throw, thrown, to dart, to get in, to heave, to let fly, to put down, to shadow, to shy, to throw, to trip), kibuktat (thrown, to floor, to throw, to unseat), kifektet (thrown, to coldcock, to cold-cock, to crack sy up, to floor, to throw), kiformál (elaborate, thrown, to throw), kockázik (dice, thrown, to dice, to play the dice, to throw), ledöbbent (thrown, to floor, to psych sy out, to throw), megdöbbent (aghast, appall, astonish, astound, dismay, dumbfound, dumbfounded, flabbergast, flummox, stupefied, take aback, thrown, thunderstruck, to appal, to appall, to dismay, to dumbfound, to dumfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to flurry, to petrify, to stupefy, to throw), megfon (thrown, to throw), hullat (shed, thrown, to shed, to throw). (various references)

Korean 

던졌다. (various references)

Pig Latin

ewthray.(various references)

Romanian

trecut de la throw. (various references)

Russian 

от throw, бросать (cast, cast off, на корме, dart, dash, drop, dump, fling, give over, give up, heave, hurl, jilt, launch, pitched, plant, project, put, quit, relinquish, shoot, slam down, slinging, slings, slung, throw, throw over, thrown, toss). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od throw. (various references)

Spanish

tiro/, pret de throw. (various references)

Swedish

kastade (flung). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vứt (fling, flung, throw, thrown), sự quăng (cast, fling, flung, throw, thrown), sự ném (fling, flung, pitch, throw, thrown). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "THREW": misthrew, outthrew, overthrew, upthrew. (additional references)

Misspellings

"THREW" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Etherow, ther, therg, therow, thewd, thewn, thge, thr, thra, thrawn, thre, threa, threb, thred, threep, thren, thret, threz, thri, thria, thrik, throk, throwt, thrue, thruw, thured, Thyre, Trecwn, trewe, trhe, triw, truw, trw. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thew, wert, whet.

-2 letters: eth, her, het, hew, ret, tew, the, wet.

-3 letters: eh, er, et, he, re, we.

+1 letter: thawer, wether, whiter, wither, wreath, wretch, writhe, wuther.

+2 letters: swather, swither, thawers, thewier, thrawed, thrower, upthrew, watcher, weather, wethers, whereat, whereto, whether, whetter, whither, whitier, whitter, whortle, withers, withier, worthed, wrathed, wreathe, wreaths, wreathy, writhed, writhen, writher, writhes, wuthers.

+3 letters: aweather, herewith, honewort, howitzer, misthrew, outthrew, regrowth, swathers, switcher, swithers, throwers, thwacker, thwarted, thwarter, twitcher, watchers, waterish, weathers, weighter, whatever, wheatear, whetters, whistler, whitener, whitters, whittler, whittret, whortles, witchery, witchier, withdrew, withered, witherer, worthier, worthies, wrathier, wreathed, wreathen, wreathes, wretched, wretches, writhers, wuthered.