Throw Back

Definition: Throw Back

Throw Back

Verb

1. Throw back with a quick, light morion; "She tossed back her head".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Throw Back

Crosswords: Throw Back

Expression using "throw back": To throw back. Additional references.

Albanian

pasqyroj (express, image, mirror, reflect, render, represent), kthej (bandy, bend, bow, bring back, convert, disgorge, fold in, give back, head off, lift down, replace, restore, return, slew, transform, transit, turn, turn aside, turn down). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, go over, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, take back). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирам развитието на (dwarf, nip, stump), връщам назад (put back, set back), отразявам (effect, give back, glance, glass, image, mirror, reflect, reverberate), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), отмятам (tick off, toss back), отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, drive back, estrange, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, thrust aside, turn off, ward), мятам назад, дърпам (drag, draw, haul, heave, lug, pluck, pull, pull back, strain at). (various references)

Czech

zvrhnout se po, odrazit (beat, beat off, fend, fend off, fight off, force back, hold off, intercept, push off, rebut, repel, repulse, return, ricochet, shove off, strike back, ward off), hodit zpìt. (various references)

Danish

reversion (atavism, reversion), atavisme (atavism). (various references)

Dutch

terugslag (arc back, arc-back, atavism, backfire, back-fire, bounce, choc en retour, flashback, flyback, kickback, rebound, rebound effect, relapse, retrace), atavisme (atavism, throw-back). (various references)

Finnish

heijastaa (radiate, reflect), atavismi (atavism). (various references)

French

renvoyer (throwback). (various references)

German

zurückwerfen (echo, put back, reflect, repel, repulse, return, reverberate, set back, throwback, to reflect, to set back, toss back). (various references)

Greek 

όμοιοσ (alike, congenial, even, like, likewise, same, similar), αταβισμός (atavism), οπισθοδρομώ (recoil, regress, retreat, retrograde, retrogress). (various references)

Hungarian

visszaesés (backsliding, drop, fallback, letdown, palindromia, recidivation, recidivism, recurrence, relapse, retrogression, set back), visszaüt (hit back, strike back, to counter, to kick back, to recoil, to revert, to throw back), kudarc (abortion, beating, bust, defeat, discomfiture, failure, fiasco, fizzle, kick in the pants, miscarriage, repulse, set-back, squib), akadály (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, check, cumber, difficulty, drag, drawback, handicap, hang fire, hindrance, hitch, hobble, hurdle, impediment, leap, let, lion in the path, lion in the way, malfunction, objection, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, ring fence, snag, stumbling block, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, trammel, traverse). (various references)

Italian

rinviare (adjourn, defer, hold over, lay by, postpone, put back, put off, recommit, refer, return, send back), reversione (recidivism, reversion), regresso (decline, recourse, regress, regression, setback), buttare all'indietro, atavismo (atavism). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

照り�"す (to reflect, to throw back light), 投�'�"す (to throw back). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�'かえす (to throw back), てりかえす (to reflect, to throw back light). (various references)

Manx

ceau ergooyl, ceau er ash (cast back, fling back). (various references)

Pig Latin

owthray ackbay.(various references)

Portuguese

atavismo (atavism). (various references)

Russian 

закинуть (throw), запрокидывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabaciti (put away), usporiti (go slow, retard, slacken, slow, slow down), potisnuti (expel, hold at bay, push down, relegate, repress, upstage), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean), baciti natrag. (various references)

Spanish

volver (abduce, call back, come back, cut back, get back, get in, go back, hark back, put back, return, ride back, to return, turn, turn about, turn around, turn away, turn over, turn round, turning), revertir (return, revert), restituir (disgorge, put back, return), restar (abide, deduct, receive, remain, return, stay, stay over, subtract, take away, take from, take off), regresar (call back, come back, comeback, get back, get in, go back, put back, return, take back), reflejar (mirror, reflect, reflected, return), rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away), producir (activate, afford, bear, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring in, carry, cause, develop, father, generate, give, give rise to, induce, knock out, lead, originate, pay, produce, put out, raise, result in, return, to produce, turn out, work, yield), pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, to pay), echarse (drop, have, lay down, lie, lie down, slacken, stretch out, throw, throw down, throw oneself), echar hacia atrás (push back), devolver al agua, devolver (bring back, devolve, give back, hand back, hit back, pay back, put back, refund, render, repay, restore, return, send back, send in, take back), atavismo (atavism), arrollar (carry, overwhelm, roll, roll up, sweep away). (various references)

Swedish

atavism (atavism, throwback). (various references)

Turkish

ilerlemesini engellemek, benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, correspond, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, look like, match, mimic, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take after, take on), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

сповільнювати розвиток, рух тіла назад, тіснити (press), відкидати назад, затримка (arrest, backing, back-set, balk, check, delay, hold back, impediment, objection, retardment, retention, setback, stay), атавізм (atavism). (various references)

regere, reiciendum, reiecta, remiserat, remiseritis, remiserunt, remisi, remisisset, remisisti, remisit, remisitque, remissa, remissae, remissas, remissus, remittas, remittat, remittatur, remitte, remittemus, remittentes, remittentur, remittere, remittetur, remittimus, remittit, remittitis, remitto, remittuntur, revolutum, revolvet, revolvit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: throwback.

-3 letters: broach, thwack, whacko.

-4 letters: abhor, abort, actor, batch, boart, botch, brach, bract, brock, broth, cahow, carbo, carob, chark, chart, cobra, croak, crwth, korat, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, rowth, tabor, taroc, tarok, thack, thraw, throb, throw, torah, torch, track, troak, trock, wacko, watch, whack, whort, worth, wrack, wrath, wroth.

-5 letters: arch, arco, bach, back.

+1 letter: throwbacks.