TOSSED Synonyms: 150 Similar and Opposite Words

tossed

verb

Definition of tossed next

past tense of toss

as in lurched

to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas

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as in jerked

to make jerky or restless movements tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat

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as in threw

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm toss that football over here

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as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use

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Recent Examples of tossed Freshman Jocelyn Monroe tossed a complete-game five-inning shutout, striking out 12, as the Grapevine Faith Lions rolled to a 10-0 run-rule triumph over the Fort Worth Southwest Christian Eagles in a TAPPS Division II District 1 contest Tuesday at Oak Grove Park. —

Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026 The right-hander tossed six innings, allowing two runs on four hits while striking out nine and walking three. —

James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026 Hayes scooped up the ball and tossed it up the court toward Doncic. —

Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026 Parker Messick tossed six scoreless innings and the Cleveland Guardians broke the game open with three runs in the seventh inning to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Monday, spoiling the two-time World Series champions' perfect start. —

CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026 The day when everything around her began to shake and the lumps that embraced her loosened their grip and the tool tossed her through the air, she was spared from being sliced in two by the metal edge. —

María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026 Weathers tossed 49 strikes in his first outing with the Bronx Bombers. —

Ernesto Cova, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 So had Florida not decided to tweak its offense to emphasize paint touches, dwindling the bricks its guards had regularly tossed through the first two disastrous months, this could have been a historic season. —

Noah White, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2026 When Jalen Suggs tossed his mouthpiece off the court after he was bumped by LaMelo Ball roughly halfway through the first quarter of Thursday’s game at Charlotte, the Magic guard was quickly assessed a technical fine from official Scott Foster. —

Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026

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Don’t gag, don’t cry — and my stomach lurched.

— Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
Since then, the larger culture has lurched rightward, with big corporations abandoning progressive signaling in favor of…other priorities.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026