Found 2 hits - Term: to fling out, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fling \fling\ fli^ng, v. t. imp. p. p. flung
flu^ng; p. pr. vb. n. flinging. oe. flingen,
flengen, to rush, hurl; cf. icel. flengia to whip, ride
furiously, osw. flenga to strike, sw. flaumnga to romp,
dan. flenge to slash.
1. 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.
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't is fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings,
of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
--dryden.
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he . . . like jove, his lighting flung. --dryden.
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i know thy generous temper well.
fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
it straight takes fire. --addison.
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2. to shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
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the sun begins to fling
his flaring beams. --milton.
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every beam new transient colors flings. --pope.
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3. to throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate;
hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in
litigation.
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his horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.
--walpole.
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to fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter.
to fling away, to reject; to discard.
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cromwell, i charge thee, fling away ambition.
--shak.
to fling down.
a to throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as
formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a
challenge.
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this question so flung down before the guests, .
. .
was handed over by consent of all
to me who had not spoken. --tennyson.
b 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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see also:
flung flinging to fling about to fling away to fling down to fling in
to fling off to fling open to fling out to fling up
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fling \fling\, v. i.
1. to throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to
kick and fling.
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2. to cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer;
as, the scold began to flout and fling.
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3. to throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush
or spring with violence or haste.
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and crop-full, out of doors he flings. --milton.
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i flung closer to his breast,
as sword that, after battle, flings to sheath.
--mrs.
browning.
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to fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter
sneers and insinuations.
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to fling out
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