Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to fling
Participle: flung
Gerund: flinging
Indicative
Present
| I | fling |
| you | fling |
| he;she;it | flings |
| we | fling |
| you | fling |
| they | fling |
Perfect
| I | have flung |
| you | have flung |
| he;she;it | has flung |
| we | have flung |
| you | have flung |
| they | have flung |
Past
| I | flung |
| you | flung |
| he;she;it | flung |
| we | flung |
| you | flung |
| they | flung |
Pluperfect
| I | had flung |
| you | had flung |
| he;she;it | had flung |
| we | had flung |
| you | had flung |
| they | had flung |
Future
| I | will fling |
| you | will fling |
| he;she;it | will fling |
| we | will fling |
| you | will fling |
| they | will fling |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flung |
| you | will have flung |
| he;she;it | will have flung |
| we | will have flung |
| you | will have flung |
| they | will have flung |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | fling |
| you | fling |
| he;she;it | fling |
| we | fling |
| you | fling |
| they | fling |
Perfect
| I | have flung |
| you | have flung |
| he;she;it | have flung |
| we | have flung |
| you | have flung |
| they | have flung |
Imperfect
| I | flung |
| you | flung |
| he;she;it | flung |
| we | flung |
| you | flung |
| they | flung |
Pluperfect
| I | had flung |
| you | had flung |
| he;she;it | had flung |
| we | had flung |
| you | had flung |
| they | had flung |
Conditional
Present
| I | would fling |
| you | would fling |
| he;she;it | would fling |
| we | would fling |
| you | would fling |
| they | would fling |
Perfect
| I | would have flung |
| you | would have flung |
| he;she;it | would have flung |
| we | would have flung |
| you | would have flung |
| they | would have flung |
Imperative
| you | fling |
| we | Let's fling |
| you | fling |
Verbs conjugated like 'fling'
cling,
dig,
fling,
hamstring,
sling,
slink,
stick,
sting,
string,
swing,
underdig,
unstick,
unstring,
wring,
foind,
outfling,
overswing,
restick,
restring,
undersling, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'fling'
cling,
flint,
sling,
aline,
bing,
blin,
blind,
blink,
boing,
bring,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to cause an object to move rapidly through the air
- cast, chuck, feck, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, shy, skew, sling, throw, toss
- throw
- hurl, dump, pitch, sling, toss
Additional Information
Etymology
From Middle English flyngen, from Old Norse flengja (“to whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flangijaną (“to beat, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to beat”). Cognate with Icelandic flengja (“to spank”), Norwegian flengja (“to rip, tear, or fling open”). See: Middle English '
flyngen', Icelandic '
flengja'.
Verbs referencing "fling"
Latin
plago, Danish
flænge.
Sample Sentences
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[...] alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers revive; the cooks pause in their savoury work, and look out with faces full of interest. The boat comes alongside; the bags are dragged in anyhow, and flung down for the moment anywhere. Three cheers more: and as the first one rings upon our ears, the vessel throbs like a strong giant that has just received the breath of life; the two great wheels turn [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] over and going down. But what the agitation of a steam-vessel is, on a bad winter 's night in the wild Atlantic, it is impossible for the most vivid imagination to conceive. To say that she is flung down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hundred great guns, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] banks on either side, besprinkled with pleasant villas, and made refreshing to the sight by turf and trees. Soon we shot in quick succession, past a light-house; a madhouse (how the lunatics flung up their caps and roared in sympathy with the headlong engine and the driving tide ! ); a jail; and other buildings: and so emerged into a noble bay, whose waters sparkled in the now cloudless [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] three hundred in number, and in every one a man locked up; this one at his door for air, with his hands thrust through the grate; this one in bed (in the middle of the day, remember ); and this one flung down in a heap upon the ground, with his head against the bars, like a wild beast. Make the rain pour down, outside, in torrents. Put the everlasting stove in the midst; hot, and suffocating, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken tempers that were not resolutely at Set Fair, down to some inches below Stormy. At one time we were all flung together in a heap at the bottom of the coach, and at another we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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CHAPTER XXXV The Tokens “ And slight, withal, may be the things that bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside forever; it may be a sound, A flower, the wind, the ocean, which shall wound, — Striking the electric chain wherewith we 're darkly bound. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)