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present participle of chuck
Synonyms & Antonyms of chucking
1
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge
Synonyms for chucking
- cashiering,
- casting (off),
- deep-sixing,
- discarding,
- ditching,
- dumping,
- eighty-sixing
- (or 86ing),
- exorcising
- (also exorcizing),
- flinging (off or away),
- jettisoning,
- junking,
- laying by,
- losing,
- pitching,
- rejecting,
- scrapping,
- shedding,
- shucking (off),
- sloughing (off)
- also sluffing (off),
- throwing away,
- throwing out,
- tossing,
- unloading
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2
to give up (a job or office)
- I swear, I have half a mind to chuck this job and become a hermit!
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- hiring (out or on)
Antonyms for chucking
3
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
- chucked a wad of paper at his friend's back
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