The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fling \Fling\ (fl[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flung (fl[u^]ng); p. pr. & vb. n. Flinging.] [OE. flingen, flengen, to rush, hurl; cf. Icel. flengia to whip, ride furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw. fl["a]nga to romp, Dan. flenge to slash.]
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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
--Dryden.He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung.
--Dryden.I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire.
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To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
The sun begins to fling His flaring beams.
--Milton.Every beam new transient colors flings.
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To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. --Walpole. To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. To fling away, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak. To fling down.
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To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge.
This question so flung down before the guests, . . . Was handed over by consent of all To me who had not spoken.
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To overturn; to demolish; to ruin.
To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work.
To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of.
--Addison.To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door.
To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another.
To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.
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Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is flung. vb. (present participle of fling English)
Usage examples of "flinging".
Blaise and Denis were flinging stones at it to bring it down, and Rose called and jumped and stretched out her arms as if she hoped to be able to reach the ball.
That Benard and Madame Joseph were not bad-hearted in reality was shown by the fact that although Euphrasie was now but an useless encumbrance, they kept her with them, instead of flinging her into the streets as others would have done.
BONAPARTE placing a chair for his visitor and flinging himself down on another.
Then flinging his whole weight above the prostrate body he held him by sheer force, conquering and saving this life which had no claims on him except that of all common humanity.
As he went into the house, flinging down his cap, his mother looked up at the clock.
She took advantage of his startlement by flinging herself at him, and within a heartbeat he had recovered quite enough to return her embrace.