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thrown up one's hands

thrown up one's hands is the past participle of throw up one's hands.

Meaning of throw up one's hands

Verb

throw up one's hands (third-person singular simple present throws up one's hands, present participle throwing up one's hands, simple past threw up one's hands, past participle thrown up one's hands)

  1. (intransitive) To raise both hands in the air in an exasperated manner.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To cease an attempt because it is perceived as doomed.
    • I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead—I'd got to throw up my hands.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Questions about thrown up one's hands

What is thrown up one's hands the past participle of?
Thrown up one's hands is the past participle of throw up one's hands.

Words near thrown up one's hands in the dictionary

  1. thrown to the winds
  2. thrown to the wolves
  3. thrown together
  4. thrown under a bus
  5. thrown up
  6. thrown up one's hands
  7. thrown up the sponge
  8. thrown wobblies
  9. thrownness
  10. throwoff
  11. throwoffs

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