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单词 throw up
释义 throw up
verb
Etymology: Middle English throwen up, from throwen to throw + up
transitive verb
1. : to raise quickly or unexpectedly
 < throw up the window >
2. : to give up : quit, relinquish
 < threw up a good job to devote his whole time to art — Herbert Read >
 < throw the whole thing up and do exactly what he wanted to do — Mary Deasy >
3. : to build in or as if in a hurried manner : construct hastily
 < makeshift dwellings … were thrown up almost overnight — American Guide Series: New York City >
 < a breastwork was thrown up around the outskirts — American Guide Series: Minnesota >
4. : vomit
 < if they are swallowed whole they may be thrown up — H.H.Miller >
5. : to bring forth : produce
 < proves that Parliament can throw up leaders — Ernest Barker >
 < all the voluminous information thrown up by successive … investigations — S.F.Bemis >
6. : to make prominent or distinct especially by contrast : cause to stand out
 < white and yellow … help to throw up the other colors in the garden — Stuart Ogg >
7. : to mention repeatedly by way of reproach
 < don't want that thrown up to me when I'm old and gray — Hamilton Basso >
intransitive verb
1. : vomit
 < it was pretty hot … and she got sick and threw up — Don Ludlow >
2. of a hound : to raise the head on losing the scent
throw up one's hands : to admit defeat
 < the average conductor, faced with such a score, throws up his hands — Deems Taylor >
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