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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News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.

— Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026

Definition of dumps

Verb

Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Detergent overdosing also leaves behind a film on the inside of the washer, which feeds mold and causes odors.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026

Definition of leaves

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Footage was captured in part in a video published by TMZ in March, which showed Mortensen film as Paul hits, kicks hand throws furniture at him.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Of course, something can always happen that surprises us and throws Wall Street for a loop.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 July 2026

Definition of throws

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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2026
At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026

Definition of discards

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However, consumers and retailers shouldn’t call it quits on big fits just yet.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
This solution could even be moved from space to space as needed, though that would involve more hefting than most of us would be happy undertaking more than a few times before calling it quits.

— Paul Ridden June 22, New Atlas, 22 June 2026

Definition of quits

Verb

This would avoid a repeat of the Champions League final in May, which saw Paris Saint-Germain win both coin tosses to decide the end they were taken from and their order.

— Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 29 June 2026
The unanimous appeals court decision tosses a February district court ruling that ordered the National Parks Service (NPS) to restore the panels that were removed from the site.

— Deena Zaru, ABC News, 18 June 2026

Definition of tosses

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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