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Another word for chuck

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Verb

  1. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example

    See also:

    keep

  2. To put out by force

    Idioms:
    See also:

    keep

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Another word for chuck

Verb

  1. To caress

    See also:

    touch

    caress

  2. *To get rid of

    See also:

    throw

    discard

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Sentence Examples

  • I certainly didn't have any right to chuck it.

  • The head of the stopper is fastened in a chuck and the peg is ground to the size of the mouth of the bottle by means of sand and water pressed against the glass by bent strips of thin sheet iron.

  • How can you chuck it in like that or shove it under the cord where it'll get rubbed?

  • His favorites were "In His Eyes" from Jekyll and Hyde and "Chase the Clouds Away" by Chuck Mangione.

  • Most notably, author Susan Nanus transformed the work into a two-act children's play in 1977, and producer Chuck Jones created a combination live-action and animated film based on the novel in 1970.

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