forthrow
forthrow verb: to throw off; cast off; reject.
Verb
forthrow (third-person singular simple present forthrows, present participle forthrowing, simple past forthrew, past participle forthrown)
- To throw off; cast off; reject.
- The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]1977, Karen M. Adams, Black images in nineteenth-century American painting and literature
- Dread is primordially grounded in having-been from where future and present temporalize themselves. Let's start from the disclosing function of existential understanding. Its achievement is to forthrow possibilities. Since being is fully unlike beings, to understand it means to forthrow a...2007, Limited Intelligence & Active Machinery
Forms of forthrow
| third-person singular present | forthrows |
|---|---|
| present participle | forthrowing |
| past | forthrew |
| past participle | forthrown |
Origin of forthrow
From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.
Questions about forthrow
- What does forthrow mean?
- Forthrow means to throw off; cast off; reject.
- What part of speech is forthrow?
- Forthrow is a verb.
- What is the past tense of forthrow?
- The past tense of forthrow is forthrew.
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