threw

CEFRA1

/θɹuː/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Past tense of throw.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    past participle of throw

Examples

  • A fanatic threw a bomb at the king's coach.

  • His sudden departure threw the office into chaos.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /θɹʉw/

Deep Dive

More examples

In context

  • Mary threw her arms around her father's neck.

  • "But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough."

  • I may have threw it away then, or I may have threw it away after I got the passport and didn't need the various other stuff any long.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The pitcher blank the baseball hard toward the batter at the plate.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēow (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.