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View synonyms for thrown

thrown

[ throhn ]

verb

  1. a past participle of throw.


thrown

/ θrəʊn /

verb

  1. the past participle of throw
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • un·thrown adjective
  • well-thrown adjective
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Example Sentences

Earlier this week a judge delayed his decision as to whether Trump’s conviction should be thrown out because of a Supreme Court ruling in the summer that expanded presidential immunity.

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Charlie died the following day at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary from the "catastrophic effects of a head injury" after he had been "shaken or thrown with such violence", Mr Lumley said.

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“There is a perfect storm of young inexperienced staff with poor vetting and inadequate training being thrown into a dystopian environment," Mr Podmore says, "where violence and organised crime dominate a failing prison system.”

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He was thrown from the vehicle, then run over by it as he tried to stop it from rolling down a hill toward his nephew.

Those clothes become so dirty that they are thrown out in a cargo vehicle that burns up in the atmosphere.

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