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Definition of flinging : of Fling

Synonyms:

inspiring, energizing, enticing, bumping, fermenting, jolting, hurtling, nudging, hastening, inducing, moving, jerking, magnetizing, jostling, poking, fomenting, triggering, motivating, striking, prompting, jogging, stimulating, knocking, shooting, forcing, punching, instigating, encouraging, urging, provoking

flicking, pelting, chucking, slinging, driving, impelling, butting, precipitating, catapulting, tossing, bowling, hurling, canting, casting, throwing, pushing, goading, thrusting, lobbing, projecting, heaving, propelling, launching, bunting, firing, compelling, ramming, shoving, prodding, pitching, shunting

Usage examples:

• He therefore drew the picket that fastened Black Hawk; and, flinging himself upon the horse's back, rode off among the bushes. - "The Boy Hunters", Captain Mayne Reid.
• The girl read, and as I bid her returned me the note, flinging it to me in passing by. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• I rejoined, flinging first the large ball of butter into his chest, and after it the small bags of flour, tsamba, cheese, fruit, etc. - "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet", A. Henry Savage Landor.