Synonyms of chucking

chucking

verb

present participle of chuck

1

as in dumping

to get rid of as useless or unwanted

after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dumping
• discarding
• ditching
• unloading
• losing
• tossing
• abandoning
• scrapping
• jettisoning
• shedding
• rejecting
• removing
• eliminating
• junking
• exorcising
• casting (off)
• flinging (off or away)
• sloughing (off)
• throwing away
• shucking (off)
• disposing of
• dismissing
• laying by
• deep-sixing
• sluffing (off)
• setting aside
• throwing out
• pitching
• forsaking
• eighty-sixing
• deserting
• cashiering
• eradicating
• abolishing
• abdicating
• exterminating
• kicking out
• expunging
• extinguishing
• annihilating
• wiping out
• extirpating
• liquidating
• stamping (out)
• rooting (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• using
• adopting
• embracing
• employing
• utilizing
• holding
• keeping
• taking on
• retaining
• holding back

2

as in leaving

to give up (a job or office)

I swear, I have half a mind to chuck this job and become a hermit!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• leaving
• quitting
• abandoning
• bagging
• giving notice
• retiring (from)
• resigning (from)
• vacating
• stepping down (from)
• stepping aside (from)
• throwing up
• dropping out (of)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• staying (at)
• hiring (out or on)

3

as in throwing

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

chucked a wad of paper at his friend's back

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throwing
• tossing
• hurling
• flinging
• slinging
• firing
• launching
• hurtling
• lobbing
• heaving
• pelting
• casting
• bowling
• pegging
• catapulting
• pitching
• dashing
• darting
• flipping
• lofting
• rolling
• gunning
• letting fly
• projecting
• thrusting
• ejecting
• hooking
• passing
• propelling
• precipitating
• shooting
• bucking
• impelling
• rifling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of chucking

One happened in July and led to Jackson chucking a tight end’s helmet high into the air. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026

The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily chucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie’s childhood tradition. — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026

One of Noe’s younger boys stood on a ladder under the orange tree, plucking fruit from the branches and chucking them to the ground, scattering the chickens. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

Rather than chucking the entire function at the agent all at once, start incrementally. — Thenuka Karunaratne, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

As a result, the most important clay-court of all chucking players back into their old way of seeing and understanding the contours of a tennis match is hugely counterproductive. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 23 May 2026

Windshield after windshield smashed in Linden Surveillance video from a Linden apartment complex shows a person in the early hours of Monday morning drive up, get out of his vehicle and throw bricks through the windshields of parked cars, chucking them aimlessly from multiple launch points. — Allen Devlin, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026

But only a few moments after chucking a wild runner off the side of the backboard to fall to 0 of 7, Kuminga reeled the Hawks crowd back in with a decisive transition layup over Brandin Podziemski to score his only basket of the night. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026

Because chucking a mini pillow and knocking off a person’s hat is *thisclose* to knocking off a person. — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026