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threw

/θɹuː/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To change place.
  2. To change in state or status
  3. To move through time.
  4. To be accepted.
  5. In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  6. To do or be better.
  7. To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
  8. To eject or cause to fall off.
  9. To move to another position or condition; to displace.
  10. To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
  11. (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
  12. To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
  13. (said of animals) To give birth to.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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