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threw

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"Past tense of throw"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /θɹuː/Sorted ehrtwStarts with TEnds with W1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Sent something through the air by hand.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • "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.
  • I never should have had all them niggas in my bed for all them years. Never should have threw you out.

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