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tossverb to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motionsthe boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas careen, lurch, pitch, rock, roll, seesaw, sway, wobble(also wabble) blunder, buck, dodder, falter, flounder, halt, hitch, hobble, jerk, jolt, reel, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, toddle, totter, tumble, vacillate, vibrate, waddle, waver, weaveoscillate, undulate, wag, waggle to make jerky or restless movementstossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat fiddle, fidget, jerk, jig, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, thrash, thresh, twist, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writhe flit, flutter, twitterquake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremblepace relax, rest, unwindcalm (down), still to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the armtoss that football over here cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, throw bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shootbuck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust let fly to get rid of as useless or unwantedwe need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six(or 86), exorcise(also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off)also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, unload abandon, abdicate, desert, forsakedismiss, kick outabolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out dispose of, set aside adopt, embrace, take onemploy, use, utilizehold, hold back, keep, retain throw, cast, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force.throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm.can throw a fastball and a curve cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering.cast it to the winds toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion.tossed the coat on the bed fling stresses a violent throwing.flung the ring back in his face hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight.hurled himself at the intruder pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target.pitch horseshoes sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim.slung the bag over his shoulder in the 15th century |