Crossword-Solution: THROW 5 letters, 123 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Throw	n.	Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
Throw	n.	Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
Throw	v. t.	To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
Throw	v. t.	To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
Throw	v. t.	To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
Throw	v. t.	To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
Throw	v. t.	To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
Throw	v. t.	To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
Throw	v. t.	To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
Throw	v. t.	To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
Throw	v. t.	To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
Throw	v. t.	To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
Throw	v. t.	To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
Throw	v. t.	To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
Throw	v. i.	To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
Throw	n.	The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
Throw	n.	A stroke; a blow.
Throw	n.	The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
Throw	n.	A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
Throw	n.	An effort; a violent sally.
Throw	n.	The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
Throw	n.	A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
Throw	n.	A turner's lathe; a throwe.
Throw	n.	The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
THROW	anagram	TWOHR, WORTH, WROTH

We have 123 clues for the answer “THROW”

Clue	Answers
"___ physic to the dogs."	1 answer
Hurl or pitch energetically	1 answer
A light scarf or coverlet.	1 answer
Afghan, maybe	1 answer
Afghan, perhaps	1 answer
Afghan, sometimes	1 answer
Afghan,maybe	1 answer
Attempt at a dunk tank	1 answer
Baserunners try to beat it	1 answer
Blanket on a couch	1 answer
Comfy couch accessory	1 answer
Confuse; cast	1 answer
Crap-game attempt	1 answer
Decorative blanket	1 answer
Disconcert; chuck	1 answer
Do it with a fit or a party	1 answer
Each, with "a"	1 answer
Fielder's assist, e.g.	1 answer
Fielder's move.	1 answer
Host, as a party	1 answer
Hurl; perplex	1 answer
Judo technique	1 answer
Light bed cover ... and a verb that goes with the first parts of this puzzle's four longest answers	1 answer
Light blanket	1 answer
Light cloth cover for furniture	1 answer
Light coverlet	1 answer
Loosen up, to a pitcher	1 answer
Lose illegally	1 answer
Make a gridiron pass	1 answer
Material draped over a sofa	1 answer
Propel or perplex	1 answer
Purposefully lose	1 answer
Purposely lose	1 answer
Put on, as a party	1 answer
Quarter's worth at a carnival, maybe	1 answer
Launch something by hand	1 answer
Rig, as a fight	1 answer
Roll the bones	1 answer
Shape clay on a potter's wheel	1 answer
Shape on a potter's wheel	1 answer
Shawl or afghan	1 answer
Small blanket.	1 answer
Spread or coverlet.	1 answer
Stadium relay	1 answer
Stone's ___ (short distance)	1 answer
Synonym for hold, funnily enough, in reference to a party	1 answer
Hurl or lob forcefully	1 answer
Toss or hurl	1 answer
Type of pillow	1 answer
Type of pillow or rug	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EREAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with THROW (5)

Bathsheba immediately contrived to withdraw, and glided along by the river till she was a stone’s throw off: she heard footsteps brushing the grass, and had a consciousness that love was encircling her like a perfume.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Could I have preserved the picturesque force of his style, and the humourous colouring which nature taught him how to throw over his descriptions, the result, I honestly believe, would have been something new in literature.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

When for a moment I raised my head to take breath and throw the hair and water from my eyes, the steam was rising in a whirling white fog that at first hid the Martians altogether.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Note that there is an ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: "I'm going to garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but it could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with THROW (3)

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuc…

Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

Cassandra Clare

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 139 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).