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Grammar : Verb

Definition of throw down

As in raze : verb flatten, knock down; wipe out
As in tackle : verb jump on and grab
As in bring down : verb reduce or hurt
As in dump : verb drop, throw away
As in fell : verb chop down

Example sentences :

Perhaps he could have escaped, if he had chosen to throw down his arms and entreat for his life.
Extract from : « Apology » by Plato

Throw down the fence and turn them into the stranger's field.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

"Throw down," it repeated, with a growl as bearlike as the body.
Extract from : « The Devil's Asteroid » by Manly Wade Wellman

How was one man to be able to throw down and build up kingdoms?
Extract from : « The Preacher and His Models » by James Stalker

We should have wanted to skip to the last page—and then throw down the book.
Extract from : « The Long Run » by Edith Wharton

Here is my pride that I throw down, in my bride year to know my husband an impostor.
Extract from : « The Arrow-Maker » by Mary Austin

At length I saw him throw down his load and plunge into the thicket.
Extract from : « Adventures of a Young Naturalist » by Lucien Biart

Cerealis then mounted the hill, and sent to them to throw down their arms.
Extract from : « For the Temple » by G. A. Henty

Here, you sirs, throw down those tools, or it will be the worse for you.
Extract from : « Old Gold » by George Manville Fenn

Are the Gods to throw down this woman who has scorned Them and so cruelly trodden on you?
Extract from : « The Lost Continent » by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

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