Threw Meaning
/θɹuː/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past of throw
verbpast participle of throw
Sentence Examples
A fanatic threw a bomb at the king's coach.
Mary threw her arms around her father's neck.
His sudden departure threw the office into chaos.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The pitcher ____ the baseball hard toward the batter at the plate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ the ball across the park for her dog to catch, and he ran after it with a lot of excitement today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough.""
— 1967, John McPhee, The Pine Barrens, page 66:
"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."
— 1979, Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr […] , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 606:
"I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out."
— 2005 June 1, Tracy Brown, Criminal Minded: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 152:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The pitcher ____ the baseball hard toward the batter at the plate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ the ball across the park for her dog to catch, and he ran after it with a lot of excitement today.