forthrow

To throw off; cast off; reject.

Verb

  1. To 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...
    • 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....

Origin

From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.

Forms

forthrows forthrowing forthrew forthrown

Related

forcast