Entry Word: throw

Function: verb

Meaning: to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm <threw a life preserver to the drowning man>

Synonyms cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, toss

Related Words bowl, flip, hook, pass, roll, shoot: buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust