THROWN Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

thrown

verb

Definition of thrown next

past participle of throw

as in tossed

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm threw a life preserver to the drowning man

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as in dropped

to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally the attacker threw his victim to the ground

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Recent Examples of thrown The government has thrown a lot of money at bolstering security for the Jewish population. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026 Before Trevor Story came to bat in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s dispiriting affair at Comerica Park, Framber Valdez had thrown 693 pitches in the 2026 season. —

Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 6 May 2026 Pratt is expected to face off in a mayoral debate Wednesday night versus Bass and city councilmember Nithya Raman at the Skirball Cultural Center (hopefully, without tomatoes being thrown). —

James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026 The war, now in its tenth week, has thrown the Persian Gulf and swaths of the Middle East into turmoil and begun a bitter ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. —

Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 6 May 2026 The benches cleared and the bullpens emptied, but no punches were thrown and order was quickly restored. —

Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026 The forthcoming Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art has received a $490 million construction grant from Diriyah Company, a real estate juggernaut that has previously thrown its support behind an array of resorts, a digital art institution, and a shopping district in the country. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 28 Apr. 2026 When a mysterious aircraft sinks into the ocean, though, her peaceful world is suddenly thrown into danger. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026 Nate is brutally beaten, thrown against the railing of his staircase, and dragged across the floor. —

Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 27 Apr. 2026

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The Eyes must have tossed the Pearl Girls dormitory, too, because Daisy’s pocket radio — the one she’s been hiding inside her bunkmate Thalia’s bed frame — is sitting on the desk.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
But when Story stepped to the plate — after Willson Contreras launched a 449-foot home run, admired his work and then tossed his bat toward the on-deck circle, and after Wilyer Abreu followed with a 396-foot blast of his own — Valdez threw, of all things, a four-seam fastball.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 6 May 2026