"throw about" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throws about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> about"
      },
      "expansion": "throw about (third-person singular simple present throws about, present participle throwing about, simple past threw about, past participle thrown about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
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            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "That now vnto despaire I gin to growe,\nAnd meane for better winde about to throwe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1805, The Naval Chronicle: Volume 14, July-December 1805:",
          "text": "when they were got about two miles a-head, they threw about, and stood for us again",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change direction; to change from one tack to another."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ],
        [
          "tack",
          "tack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, nautical) To change direction; to change from one tack to another."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go about"
        },
        {
          "word": "put about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the ship entered the violent storm, all the passengers were thrown about.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, about."
      ],
      "id": "en-throw_about-en-verb-Ms68Xsra",
      "links": [
        [
          "throw",
          "throw#English"
        ],
        [
          "about",
          "about#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw about"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "throws about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "throwing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "threw about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "thrown about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "throw<,,threw,thrown> about"
      },
      "expansion": "throw about (third-person singular simple present throws about, present participle throwing about, simple past threw about, past participle thrown about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "That now vnto despaire I gin to growe,\nAnd meane for better winde about to throwe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1805, The Naval Chronicle: Volume 14, July-December 1805:",
          "text": "when they were got about two miles a-head, they threw about, and stood for us again",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change direction; to change from one tack to another."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ],
        [
          "tack",
          "tack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, nautical) To change direction; to change from one tack to another."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go about"
        },
        {
          "word": "put about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When the ship entered the violent storm, all the passengers were thrown about.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, about."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "throw",
          "throw#English"
        ],
        [
          "about",
          "about#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "throw about"
}