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toss

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of toss

1 to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions

the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas

Synonyms of toss

careen, lurch, pitch, rock, roll, seesaw, sway, wobble (also wabble)

Words Related to toss

blunder, buck, dodder, falter, flounder, halt, hitch, hobble, jerk, jolt, reel, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, toddle, totter, tumble, vacillate, vibrate, waddle, waver, weave

oscillate, undulate, wag, waggle

2 to make jerky or restless movements

tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat

Synonyms of toss

fiddle, fidget, jerk, jig, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, thrash, thresh, twist, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writhe

Words Related to toss

flit, flutter, twitter

quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble

Near Antonyms of toss

relax, rest, unwind

calm (down), still

3 to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

toss that football over here

Synonyms of toss

cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, throw

Words Related to toss

bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shoot

buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust

Phrases Synonymous with toss

4 to get rid of as useless or unwanted

we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use

Synonyms of toss

cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off) , throw away, throw out, unload

Words Related to toss

abandon, abdicate, desert, forsake

dismiss, kick out

abolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out

Phrases Synonymous with toss

dispose of, set aside

Near Antonyms of toss

adopt, embrace, take on

employ, use, utilize

hold, hold back, keep, retain

Synonym Discussion of toss

throw, cast, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force. throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm.

- can throw a fastball and a curve

cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering.

- cast it to the winds

toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion.

- tossed the coat on the bed

fling stresses a violent throwing.

- flung the ring back in his face

hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight.

- hurled himself at the intruder

pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target.

- pitch horseshoes

sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim.

- slung the bag over his shoulder

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