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Bucked (off)
Answer for the clue "Bucked (off) ", 5 letters:
threw
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense of throw (q.v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. project through the air; "throw a frisbee" move violently, energetically, or carelessly; "She threw herself forwards" get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed , cast , cast off , shake off , throw off , throw away ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES threw a conniption fit ▪ My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning. threw...open ▪ He threw the door open and ran down the stairs. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A little while later, still ...
Usage examples of threw.
When she had exhausted her amorous fury she threw herself into a bath, then came back, drank a bottle of Malmsey Madeira, and finally made her brutal lover drink till he fell on to the floor.
The gay and even happy air of the newly betrothed surprised me, but what astonished me more was the easy way with which she threw herself into my arms as soon as she saw me.
Out of breath, I threw myself on a sofa, pretending to go to sleep, and the moment I began to snore everybody respected the slumbers of Pierrot.
She threw herself on to the ground, and began to strike it with her forehead.
With these words the prince threw down his cards and began to walk up and down the room.
When she heard my order to go away, she threw herself on her knees, and melting into tears, she begged, she entreated my pity!
Thinking that I knew the cause of it, I threw myself on my knees before her, and speaking to her words of the warmest affection I begged, I entreated her, to forgive me.
He wept, threw himself on his knees, and begged so hard, that I let him do what he liked on the condition that he would not kill himself, and that he would come no more to the garden.
She came in with the mistress of the house, and the moment I saw her I threw my arms around her neck, crying bitterly, in which luxury the old lady soon joined me.
They drank and sang until midnight, after which they threw themselves down on bundles of straw brought for them, and my host, who was drunk, came, greatly to my dismay, to lie down near me.
But, as he had not committed the robbery to give himself the pleasure of making restitution, he threw himself upon me, and we came to a regular fight.
In course of time the secretary came, and as soon as the cell-door was opened the Jew ran out and threw himself at his feet on both knees, I heard for five minutes nothing but his tears and complaints, for the secretary said not one word.
Tiretta now as enraged as Gaetan took him by his middle and threw him down, where, having no arms, he defended himself with kicks and fisticuffs, till the waiter came, and we put him out of the room.
After more than an hour of this wild exercise, seeing no one, without the slightest reason to think I could be heard, and shrouded in darkness, I shut the grating for fear of the rats, and threw myself at full length upon the floor.
I blew out my lamp, and leaving my bar in the hole I threw into it the napkin with the shavings it contained, and as swift as lightning I replaced my bed as best I could, and threw myself on it just as the door of my cell opened.