threw

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threw

/θɹuː/ UK
/θɹʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
/θɹu/ Canada, US
/θɹʉː/ Australia, New Zealand
/θɾʉ/ Scotland
/θɻʉ/ Northern Ireland
/θɾɪu̯/ Wales

Sounds like through, thru (not in Wales) · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēow (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.

verb

past simple past of throw
colloquial, nonstandard, participle, past past participle of throw "But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough."

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: overthrew, throwed, did, began, gave, stole, showed, undertook, ran, took, got, broke, slammed, fired, cast, lay

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Chicago

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@misc{threw_2026,
  title = {threw},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/threw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}