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Definition & Synonyms
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• Toss
- (v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
- (v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
- (v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
- (v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
- (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
- (v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
- (n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
- (v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
- (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
- (n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
Synonyms:
Chuck, Convulse, Discard, Dispose, Fling, Flip, Pass, Pitch, Sky, Slash, Thrash, Thresh,
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• Tossy
- (a.) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.
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• Tossing
- (n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
- (n.) The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toss
- (n.) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Synonyms:
Agitated,
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Obstructed, Romance, Enclosure, Incur, Household, Decisive, Mention, Lorgnette, Conspired, Plagiarism, Incur, Highland, Beguiled, Intend, Bribe, Consideration, Boast, Image, Meditation, Zombie, Bonhomie, Tropical, Susceptible, Divine, Allegiance, Affluent, Dispel, Wisdom, Lesion, Surrogate, Dispel, Branch, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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