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throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate, floor.
throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.
throw by. discard.
throw in. inject; contribute.
throwing, n. a.s.sociated Words: missile, putting.
throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.n.
throwing overboard. jettison.
throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.
throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete, eject, egest, void, e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e, eliminate. Antonym: retain.
throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.
thrush, n. aphtha.
thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.
thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.
thug, n. ruffian, rough, a.s.sa.s.sin.
thunder, n. a.s.sociated Words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.
thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.
thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.
thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.
thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.
thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.
tickle, v. t.i.tillate; please, delight, gladden.
tickling, n. t.i.tillation.--a. t.i.tillative.
ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.
tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.
tide, n. a.s.sociated Words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.
tidy, a. orderly, neat, trim.
tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash. tie, n. knot, fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.
tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close, penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.
tighten, v. straiten.
tile, n. a.s.sociated Words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.
till, v. cultivate.
tillable, a. arable, cultivable.
tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.
time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse, interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.) measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term.
a.s.sociated Words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary, contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident, coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval, coetaneous.
timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely, inopportune.
timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch, hourgla.s.s, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial, isochronon.
time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.
time-serving, a. temporizing, tr.i.m.m.i.n.g.
timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted, cowardly.
timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.
tin, n. _stannum_; latten, prillion. a.s.sociated Words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.
tin mine. stannary.
tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.
tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.
tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.
tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.
tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn, upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.
tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.
tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.
tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, f.a.g, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.
