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say it: throhn
thrown is an adjective meaning "caused to fall to the ground". It is pronounced /ˈθɹoʊn/ — throhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
caused to fall to the ground
“the thrown rider got back on his horse”
“a thrown wrestler”
“a ball player thrown for a loss”
twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread
“thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn”
archaism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thrown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.