| Main Entry: | sling |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw or hang over |
Synonyms: |
bung, cast, catapult, chuck, dangle, fire, fling, heave, hoist, hurl, launch, lob, peg, pitch, raise, send, shoot, suspend, swing, toss, weight |
| Main Entry: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag |
Synonyms: |
advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor |
Antonyms: |
be modest, deprecate |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a throw to the side |
Synonyms: |
casting, ejection, expulsion, fling, flinging, heave, heaving, hurl, hurling, launching, lob, lobbing, pitch, pitching, projection, propulsion, shooting, sling, slinging, thrust, thrusting, toss, tossing |
Antonyms: |
catch, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw aside |
Synonyms: |
boot, bung, chuck, drive, drop, fire*, fling, heave, hurl, impel, launch, lob, peg, pitch, project, shed, shy, sling, thrust, toss |
Antonyms: |
catch, gather |
| Main Entry: | catapult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | implement for shooting weapon |
Synonyms: |
arbalest, ballista, heaver, hurler, pitcher, propeller, shooter, sling, slingshot, tosser, trebuchet |
| Main Entry: | chair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | single-seat furniture |
Synonyms: |
armchair, bench, cathedra, recliner, rocker, sling |
| Main Entry: | chuck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw aside, throw away, throw out |
Synonyms: |
abandon, can, cast, desert, discard, ditch, eighty-six, eject, fire, fling, flip, forsake, give the heave ho, heave, hurl, jettison, junk, launch, pitch, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, scrap, shed, shy, sling, slough, toss |
Antonyms: |
keep |
| Main Entry: | dangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend |
Synonyms: |
brandish, depend, droop, entice, flap, flaunt, flourish, hang, hang down, lure, sling, sway, swing, tantalize, tempt, trail, wave |
| Main Entry: | dash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break by hitting or throwing violently |
Synonyms: |
beat, bludgeon, cast, charge, crash, cudgel, destroy, fling, hit, hurl, hurtle, lunge, plunge, shatter, shiver, slam, sling, smash, splash, splatter, splinter, throw |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, encourage, help, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | droop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hang down; languish |
Synonyms: |
bend, dangle, decline, depress, diminish, drop, fade, fail, faint, fall down, flag, lean, let down, loll, lop, sag, settle, sink, sling, slouch, slump, subside, suspend, weaken, wilt, wither |
Antonyms: |
inflate, rise |