THROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrown mean? 

• THROWN (adjective)
  The adjective THROWN has 2 senses:

1. caused to fall to the ground

2. twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread

  Familiarity information: THROWN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caused to fall to the ground

Context example:

a ball player thrown for a loss

Similar:

down (being or moving lower in position or less in some value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread

Synonyms:

thrown; thrown and twisted

Context example:

thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn

Similar:

tangled (in a confused mass)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

'He has thrown away,' said she, 'such a woman as he will never see again. She would have fixed him; she would have made him happy for ever.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He has thrown my husband down the steps so that he broke his leg.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He had had no answer to his advertisement, he said, and no fresh light had been thrown upon the case.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is ten to one but you are thrown together again in the course of a few years; and then what a pleasure it will be!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The castle has thrown its shadow upon the cottage over long.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Lord bless my soul! exclaimed Mr. Omer, after being thrown by his surprise into a fit of coughing, you don't say so!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As to the knife, it might well be thrown far from the unfortunate man as he fell.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have thrown several of you out of the house.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Let me try it first," said the Scarecrow, "for it doesn't hurt me to get thrown about."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)