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thrown the hatchet

thrown the hatchet is the past participle of throw the hatchet.

Meaning of throw the hatchet

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of draw the long bow (“to exaggerate; to tell tall tales”).

Questions about thrown the hatchet

What is thrown the hatchet the past participle of?
Thrown the hatchet is the past participle of throw the hatchet.

Words near thrown the hatchet in the dictionary

  1. thrown the baby out with the bathwater
  2. thrown the book at
  3. thrown the bull
  4. thrown the bull around
  5. thrown the handkerchief
  6. thrown the hatchet
  7. thrown the rulebook at
  8. thrown them bows
  9. thrown things at the wall and seen what has stuck
  10. thrown to the dogs
  11. thrown to the lions

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