Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forthrow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: forthrow
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To throw off; cast off; reject.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]"
"Dread is primordially grounded in having-been from where future and present temporalize themselves. Let's start from the disclosing function of existential understanding. Its achievement is to forthrow possibilities. Since being is fully unlike beings, to understand it means to forthrow a possibility in which the sheer other to beings reveals itself."

Etymology

From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: for
Root: forthrowen

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

forthrows (present, singular) forthrowing (participle, present) forthrew (past) forthrown (participle, past)

Frequently Paired Words

forcast

Questions

What does forthrow mean?: To throw off; cast off; reject.
Where does forthrow come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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