throw

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To send something through the air using your hand and arm.

   He threw the ball to his teammate.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of throwing something.

   The catcher made a perfect throw to second base.

3. 3
   verb

   To move something quickly or carelessly into a position.

   She threw her coat onto the chair and sat down.

Multiword verbs with throw

• throw off Phrasal verb A2

  to free oneself from an unwanted burden or controlling power

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Simplified etymology

Throw is an Old English word that originally meant “to twist” or “to turn” and is related to thread. Its later senses include deliberately losing or abandoning a game, recorded from the mid-19th century and probably shortened from throw away, and giving a party, recorded from the 1920s and perhaps derived from the sense “perform a leap or somersault.”

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

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