throw in the towel

Questions about throw in the towel

What is another word for throw in the towel?

It depends which throw in the towel you mean. In the sense “give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat”, the synonyms are drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, quit, chuck up the sponge. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of throw in the towel?

WordNet records no antonym for throw in the towel. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for throw in the towel come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of throw in the towel

• Full entry for throw in the towelAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for throw in the towelWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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