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out-throwing

out-throwing is the present participle and gerund 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-throwing

What is out-throwing the present participle and gerund of?
Out-throwing is the present participle and gerund of out-throw.

Words near out-throwing in the dictionary

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

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