Adjacent Words
throw one's self onthrow one's self upon
throw one's weight about
throw one's weight around
throw out
throw out of kilter
throw out the baby with the bathwater
throw over
throw overboard
throw pillow
throw rug
throw stick
throw the baby out with the bath water
throw to the wolves
throw together
throw up one's hands
throw weight
throw weight about
Throw-crook
throw-in
Throw-off
throw-weight
throwaway
throwback
Throwe
Thrower
Throwing
throwing away
throwing board
Throwing engine
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
v
1: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
Merriam Webster's
verb Date: 15th centurytransitive verb 1. to raise quickly2. give up, quit< the urge…to throw up all intellectual work — Norman Mailer >3. to build hurriedly< new houses thrown up almost overnight >4. vomit5. to bring forth; produce6. to make distinct especially by contrast; cause to stand out7. to mention repeatedly by way of reproachintransitive verb vomit
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
1. When someone throws up, they vomit. (INFORMAL) She said she had thrown up after reading reports of the trial. PHRASAL VERB: V P 2. If something throws up dust, stones, or water, when it moves or hits the ground, it causes them to rise up into the air. If it had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and thrown up an immense cloud of dust. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 3. To throw up a particular person or thing means to produce them or cause them to become noticeable. (mainly BRIT) The political struggle threw up a strong leader... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
1. Resign, lay down, give up, demit. 2. Emit, eject, send up. 3. Vomit, disgorge.
Moby Thesaurus
abandon, abdicate, abjure, acknowledge defeat, barf, be seasick, be sick, boost, bring up, buoy up, cast up, cease, cede, chuck up, cry quits, desist from, disgorge, dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, egest, elevate, erect, escalate, feed the fish, forgo, forswear, gag, get along without, get rid of, give away, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, heave, heave the gorge, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, jerk up, keck, kiss good-bye, knock up, lay down, leave off, levitate, lift, lift up, lob, loft, make a sacrifice, part with, perk up, puke, quitclaim, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, recant, regurgitate, reject, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, retch, retract, rise, roughcast, roughhew, run up, sacrifice, set up, sick up, sky, spare, spew, stick up, surrender, swear off, up, upbuoy, upcast, upchuck, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow, vacate, vomit, waive, yield
