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tossingverbpresent participle of toss to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motionsthe boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas careening, lurching, pitching, rocking, rolling, seesawing, swaying, wobbling(also wabbling) blundering, bucking, doddering, faltering, floundering, halting, hitching, hobbling, jerking, jolting, reeling, shaking, staggering, stumbling, teetering, toddling, tottering, tumbling, vacillating, vibrating, waddling, wavering, weavingoscillating, undulating, wagging, waggling to make jerky or restless movementstossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat fiddling, fidgeting, jerking, jigging, jiggling, squiggling, squirming, thrashing, threshing, twisting, twitching, wiggling, wriggling, writhing flitting, fluttering, twitteringquaking, quivering, shaking, shivering, shuddering, tremblingpacing relaxing, resting, unwindingcalming (down), stilling to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the armtoss that football over here casting, catapulting, chucking, dashing, firing, flinging, heaving, hurling, hurtling, launching, lobbing, lofting, pegging, pelting, pitching, slinging, throwing bowling, darting, flipping, gunning, hooking, passing, rolling, shootingbucking, ejecting, impelling, precipitating, projecting, propelling, rifling, thrusting letting fly to get rid of as useless or unwantedwe need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing (off)also sluffing (off), throwing away, throwing out, unloading abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out disposing of, setting aside adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining |