fling
/ˈflɪŋ/ verb C2- To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
- To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
- To utter abusive language; to sneer. · The scold began to flout and fling.
He/she/it flings · Past flung · Past participle flung · -ing form flinging
Verb forms
- Base form
- fling
- He/she/it
- flings
- Past
- flung
- Past participle
- flung
- -ing form
- flinging
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?” Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
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