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Toss

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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Manner of action 13

Abandon 76% connected

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Dump 76% connected

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.

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Jettison 76% connected

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

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Junk 76% connected

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

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Lag 76% connected

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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Liquidize 76% connected

To render liquid.

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Retire 76% connected

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

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Scrap 76% connected

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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Submarine 76% connected

Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.

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Trash 76% connected

That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

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Tumble 76% connected

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

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Unlearn 76% connected

To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of.

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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Broader term 15

Agitate 76% connected

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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Commove 76% connected

To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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Disturb 76% connected

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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Fling 76% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Shake 76% connected

obs. p. p. of Shake.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Vex 76% connected

To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Centering 76% connected

of Centre

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Centring 76% connected

of Centre

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Derivationally related 6

Flip 74% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Flip 74% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Pitch 74% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Pitch 74% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Tosser 74% connected

Ohe who tosser.

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Tosser 74% connected

Ohe who tosser.

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Entails 5

Amalgamate 72% connected

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

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Commix 72% connected

To mix or mingle together; to blend.

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Mingle 72% connected

To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse…

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Mix 72% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Unify 72% connected

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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Synonym 12

Chuck 92% connected

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Convulse 92% connected

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony…

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Discard 92% connected

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

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Dispose 92% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Fling 92% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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Flip 92% connected

A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.

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Pass 92% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Pitch 92% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Sky 92% connected

A cloud.

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Slash 92% connected

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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Thrash 92% connected

Alt. of Thresh

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Thresh 92% connected

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash whe…

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