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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Using the same spoofing method as in the Silver attack, the attacker dumps Chrome's process memory and extracts the master key that protects the passkey's private key.

— Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
At one point, Jiavani, alone in Room 1 for a round of Count the Rice, just dumps all the rice into her Room 2 mocktail and drinks it.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of dumps

Verb

The result leaves Angel City and Seattle both with 24 points in a battle for the eighth spot in the National Women’s Soccer League standings.

— News Service Reports, Oc Register, 10 Aug. 2026
Whenever one tenant leaves, there’s questions in the community in terms of who’s going to take that space.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of leaves

Verb

In the end, Helaena throws herself from her window and to her death.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The movie stars Stewart and Alia Shawkat as codependent, marijuana-loving best friends who get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of throws

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And earlier this week, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for June showed a slight pickup in hiring and quits (an indicator of employee confidence) while layoffs were essentially unchanged.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The band quits when the director releases a swarm of bees onto the set (the original clip featured dogs), only to be replaced by look-alikes.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of quits

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Philip Marlowe as Chandler’s private eye is a smooth talking, whiskey-drinking character who tosses suggestive suggestions and 38 revolvers around with equal aplomb.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
The grandfather is seen running around a few trees, but the bison soon catches up and tosses the helpless visitor eight feet in the air.

— Suzanne Yeo, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of tosses

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Our shortcut version also ditches the eggs for mayonnaise and adds in capers for extra briny punch.

— Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 July 2026
Splatoon Raiders ditches the series' trademark, competitive multiplayer shooting, to focus entirely on single-player and co-operative raids.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 23 July 2026

Definition of ditches

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Whether your 9-to-5 job involves a rare combination of manual record keeping and precarious wilderness travel, or your idea of outdoor recreation includes journaling your day while remaining at the ready for whatever nature hurls at you, the all-new Pen-metheus equips you for it all.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 June 2026
Even when the wacky Halifax weather hurls the wildest of curveballs at the SailGP fleet, somehow Tom Slingsby and the irrepressible Australians ride their magic carpet of consummate skill and a decent dose of luck to lead the standings after the first day of the Canada Sail Grand Prix.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 21 June 2026