CHUCKS Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

chucks

verb

present tense third-person singular of chuck

as in dumps

to get rid of as useless or unwanted after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge

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as in leaves

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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as in throws

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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Recent Examples of chucks Frustrated by this, Orson chucks that tungsten cube that keeps popping up, putting a hole in the wall. — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026 Chalamet crawls out of the weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird chamber and chucks the helmet to the ground, displaying his now shaven head. — Marci Robin, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025

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How Monster Depicts the Borden Murders Their first attempt involves serving the couple oysters in May, when the series says the city of Fall River dumps its sewage over the oyster beds, contaminating the shellfish with potentially fatal bacteria.

— Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Parks and Rec says anyone who illegally dumps could face fines totaling $5,000 per piece of material.

— Brandon Goldner, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of dumps

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Its infrastructure, which carries rich resources across vast desert terrain, leaves it an easy target for the cheaper one-way drones developed by the Houthis.

— Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
The delay leaves unpopular Palestinian Authority leaders in place and sidesteps a potential opposition alliance, as Palestinians have not voted in a legislative election since Hamas won in 2006.

— Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of leaves

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The people-watching can be just as good as the art, as creative types from around the city come here to find inspiration—especially during the summer months, when the museum throws its popular experimental music parties called Warm Up.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
Worth runs for 115 yards and throws two scoring passes for the Midshipmen.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of throws

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A student tosses a metal barrier during a protest at Strasbourg University in eastern France on Friday.

— Reuters, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
Love finished 16 of 29 for 145 yards with TD tosses to Christian Watson and MarShawn Lloyd for the Packers, whose six-game skid — including the playoffs — was their longest since dropping seven in a row spanning the 1990 and 1991 seasons.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026

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Costco ditches its Kirkland beer Pope Leo XIV, who grew up listening to popular American television preacher Archbishop Fulton Sheen, praised his fellow Illinois clergyman as an inspiration today on the eve of Sheen’s beatification.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Treat standing water − such as retention ponds or drainage ditches − with a mosquito larvicide.

— Susan Bromley, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of ditches

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Former Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins hurls a deep ball toward Jefferson in double coverage, and McCardell stops the play.

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The mathematical problem concerns the Navier-Stokes equations, which govern the flow of fluids—from the whirlpool circling your bathtub’s drain to the turbulent winds El Niño hurls across the North American continent.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026