throw

/θɹəʊ/ · verb

Meaning

To change place.
To change in state or status
To move through time.
To be accepted.
In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
To do or be better.
The flight of a thrown object.
The act of throwing something.
One's ability to throw.
A distance travelled; displacement.
A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
To eject or cause to fall off.
To move to another position or condition; to displace.
To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
(of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
(said of animals) To give birth to.
A moment, time, occasion.
A period of time; a while.

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