English Words: T

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throw in the towelverb

To quit; to give up.

throw in withverb

To commit to something with; to partner with.

throw light onverb

To make clear; to elucidate; to provide an explanation for (something puzzling or mysterious).

throw money awayverb

To spend money foolishly or indiscriminately; to waste money without regard of the consequences.

throw nickels around like manhole coversverb

To be very stingy; to be reluctant to part with money.

throw of the dicenoun

Synonym of roll of the dice.

throw offverb

To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.

throw onverb

To hastily put on (clothes).

throw one's cap over the windmillverb

To act in a bizarre, eccentric or immoral manner.

throw one's hat in the ringverb

To announce one's candidacy in a contest.

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallwayverb

To have penetrative sex with a woman who has a loose vagina.

throw one's luck in withverb

To take the side of, risking good or bad fortune.

throw one's weight aroundverb

To exercise influence or authority, especially to an excessive degree or in an objectionable manner.

throw one's weight behindverb

To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse.

throw oneself intoverb

To engage heartily in; to get fully involved in.

throw openverb

To open to visitors

throw outnoun

Alternative form of throw-out.

throw oververb

To discard or give up (a plan or project, etc.).

throw saltverb

To disparage or belittle.

throw shadeverb

To subtly insult someone.

throw signsverb

To make a gesture of group affiliation (especially with a gang) from a distance.

throw smokeverb

To consistently pitch fastballs that are difficult to hit.

throw some shapesverb

To dance.

throw someone a curveverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To pitch a curve ball.

throw someone a ropeverb

To rescue someone by providing them with help, such as material aid, financial aid, a face-saving excuse, or a clue.

throw someone out of bedverb

Synonym of kick someone out of bed.

throw something in someone's faceverb

To reject some act in a spiteful manner.

throw stonesverb

To insult or criticize someone or something.

throw tantrumsverb

To habitually have temper tantrums.

throw the baby out with the bathwaterverb

To discard, inadvertently or through overzealousness, something valuable or essential ("the baby") in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted or undesirable ("the bathwater").

throw the book atverb

To charge with or convict of as many crimes as possible.

throw the bullverb

To chat idly.

throw the bull aroundverb

Synonym of shoot the breeze.

throw the handkerchiefverb

To call upon the next person, for example when giving speeches.

throw them bowsverb

To throw one's elbows around; to strike people with one's elbows.

throw things at the wall and see what sticksverb

To experiment in a haphazard or random manner with the hope that some amount of success may be achieved.

throw to the dogsverb

To throw away as useless.

throw to the windverb

To discard or dispense with, especially in an abrupt or reckless manner.

throw to the windsverb

Alternative form of throw to the wind.

throw togetherverb

To assemble rapidly, without precision.

throw under a busverb

Alternative form of throw under the bus.

throw under the busverb

To betray or blame (something or someone); to deliberately put (something or someone) in an unfavorable situation and then leave to their fate; to make (something or someone) into a scapegoat or otherwise abandon for personal gain.

throw upverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.

throw up one's handsverb

To raise both hands in the air in an exasperated manner.

throw up the spongeverb

To give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; to throw in the towel.

throw-crooknoun

A tool for twisting ropes out of straw.

throw-innoun

A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play

throw-weightnoun

A measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads, given in kilograms or tonnes.

throwabilitynoun

The quality or degree of being throwable.

throwableadj

Capable of being thrown.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter T contains 27,828 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 557 pages, and you are currently viewing page 244. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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