🤸 Knocked down 🧵 Twisted together

thrown

2.7

Pushed or knocked to the ground, for example during a fight

adjective
/θroʊn/

: arrojado

She was thrown to the ground by the force of the tackle during the football match.

Examples

She saw their bodies thrown into the water.
A stone after it has been thrown into the valley.
This is all my travel size stuff just thrown, thrown in here.
And then it was kind of thrown in our faces.
The mom screaming downstairs is her getting, like, thrown into the garage door.
And but they're not thrown back in in a healthy way.
In a Shaker community you'd be thrown out the first first day.
After losing the game, he felt thrown off balance and unsure of his next steps.
The children were playfully thrown into the air by their parents, laughing all the while.

Synonyms

to knock down

vsthrown

93 3.0

Use force to make someone or something fall to the ground

is the adjectival form describing the resulting state after that action

to dump

vsthrown

6 5.6

To knock someone down with force, often in sport

is the general word for being caused to fall, not only in sports contexts

Idioms

thrown in at the deep end

Informal

1 7.8

Put suddenly into a difficult situation without preparation or help

Compounds

thrown and twisted

Specialized

7.4

Threads spun and twisted together to make one stronger yarn

How Forceful

hurl

3 3.9

thrown

2.7

to knock down

93 3.0

pushing

1.2

to bump

111 1.0

Surface Forms

thrown positive

Morphology

thrown = throw (transparent) = throw + en

The adjective is the regular past participle form of the verb 'throw' used adjectivally, so the relation is directly derivable.

Etymology

Thrown comes from the verb throw, which long ago meant 'to turn' or 'to send'. So when someone is thrown to the ground, it is like being 'sent' or forced down.