to trow

Examples

• All

• Even though I trowel out wheelbarrow loads of fat from the house, the space inside gets smaller and smaller.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Things get a bit fuzzy the further you trowel back!

  Blog text (7)

• Hey, Justine, I need some of that brown stuff you girls like to trowel all over your face.

  Free Fire (2017)

• "It's as if... there's an emptiness in me, a dark place in my heart," Holly said, trying not to trowel it on too thick.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He mixed cement and learned to trowel it artfully, shaping a cavity to match a rock.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I trow that you will enjoy the play if you give it a chance.

• To trow is to have faith in something you cannot see.

• Though the evidence is scarce, I trow he is innocent.

Synonyms

T

to think

vsto trow

∞ 1.0

To have an opinion or guess about something

is the archaic literary equivalent for the same mental act

B

to believe

vsto trow

∞ 1.0

Accept that something is true or trust a person

is older literary language used for the same kind of mental acceptance

R

to reckon

vsto trow

• UK

185 3.4

To think or believe something is true

is older literary language that serves the same judging function

C

to calculate

vsto trow

• Informal

36 7.5

To think that something is likely to happen

is archaic literary language used to suppose something likely

W

to ween

vsto trow

• Archaic

9.9

To think or believe something

is an older literary verb used to assume or suppose

M

to methinks

vsto trow

• Archaic

9.9

It seems to me in old plays or books

is an archaic verb form expressing a personal assumption

How Certain

to make sure

∞ 1.1

to trow

• Archaic

1 9.9

to suspect

925 3.6

Surface Forms

Etymology