thrown

Meanings

Verb

  • Past participle of throw

Adjective

  • Launched by throwing.
  • Twisted into a single thread, as silk or yarn.
  • Confused; perplexed.

Origin

  • From Middle English throwen, from Old English þrāwen, ġeþrāwen, from Proto-Germanic *þrēanaz, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną.
  • Morphologically throw + -n.

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