Synonym: thrown and twisted. Similar words: throw, throw up, throw in, throw off, throw out, throwing, throw away, overthrow. Meaning: [θrəʊ] 
adj. 1. caused to fall to the ground 2. twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread.
adj. 1. caused to fall to the ground 2. twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread. 
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151) When both his parents died, the boy was thrown back on his own resources.
152) In the end he had to be thrown out of the house by force.
153) I flunked my second year exams and was lucky not to be thrown out of college.
154) The teacher asked who had thrown the eraser,[sentence dictionary]but the class clammed up.
155) It seemed as if the police had thrown in the towel and were abandoning the investigation.
156) A price war looks likely now that a leading supermarket has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors.
157) She has thrown down the gauntlet to the newspaper by accusing it of libel.
158) We were simply thrown together by circumstance on the long journey.
159) Our country has thrown up a number of great writers.
160) The baby loved being thrown up into the air and safely caught again.
161) Many useful substances are now recovered from materials which used to be thrown away.
162) Morale is very low. People have just had enough of being thrown from pillar to post.
163) Once again, we were thrown back on our own resources.
164) How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? Elbert Hubbard 
165) I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
166) All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. Gordon B. Hinckley
167) Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. Muhammad Ali
More similar words: throw, throw up, throw in, throw off, throw out, throwing, throw away, overthrow, overthrown, throwback, stone's throw, throw the book at, within a stone's throw, throne, throb, throng, throes, throat, through, dethrone, go through, bathroom, throttle, bathrobe, arthropod, get through, cutthroat, throbbing, anthropic, through to.