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out-threw

out-threw is the simple past of out-throw.

Meaning of out-throw

Verb

out-throw (third-person singular simple present out-throws, present participle out-throwing, simple past out-threw, past participle out-thrown)

  1. To throw outward.
    • Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the...1862, S. N., “Martin Luther-The Reformation”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, volume 2, page 8
  2. To surpass in throwing.
    • My whole life I had been forced together with him at every family gathering, and he had used every opportunity to out-throw me, outrun me, out-eat me.2012, Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads

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Questions about out-threw

What is out-threw the simple past of?
Out-threw is the simple past of out-throw.

Words near out-threw in the dictionary

  1. out-Tarzaning
  2. out-Tarzans
  3. out-there
  4. out-there-ness
  5. out-thereness
  6. out-threw
  7. out-throw
  8. out-throwing
  9. out-thrown
  10. out-throws
  11. out-toeing

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