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View synonyms for throw up

throw up

verb

  1. to give up; abandon, relinquish
  2. to build or construct hastily
  3. to reveal; produce

    every generation throws up its own leaders

  4. informal.
    also intr to vomit


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Example Sentences

What can we do except to throw up our hands in dismay at the baffling nature of life?

Zoning boards and city councils often throw up obstacles to expansion.

However, Thune acknowledged that individual senators had the rights and prerogratives to throw up procedural hurdles.

Republicans throw up procedural obstacles just to gum up the works and run out the clock.

They throw up barriers, like demanding that the company pay higher minimum wages or deal with unions.

In the face of such public feeling Massna found nothing for it but to demand a successor and throw up his command.

You may go hence if your courage fails you outright; but I'll throw up the bridge and entrench myself within these walls.

A voice called in good English: "Throw up your hands, you d—— fools."

Thus, in Kildare, a farmer who had purchased some distrained cattle, was obliged to throw up his farm and leave the country.

My words only prompt you to throw up another earthwork at the point attacked.

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