Meanings
present singular third person forthrows · participle present forthrowing · past forthrew · participle past forthrown
- transitiveTo throw off; cast off; reject.
The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]
1977, Karen M. Adams, Black images in nineteenth-century American painting and literature1 more example
Dread is primordially grounded in having-been from where future and present temporalize themselves. Let's start from the disclosing function of existential understanding. Its achievement is to forthrow possibilities. Since being is fully unlike beings, to understand it means to forthrow a possibility in which the sheer other to beings reveals itself.
2007, Limited Intelligence & Active Machinery
Origin
- Middle Englishforthrowen“to hurl”
- Englishforthrow
From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.
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forthrow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forthrow
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