THROW AWAY
Dictionary entry overview: What does throw away mean?
• THROW AWAY (verb)
The verb THROW AWAY has 2 senses:
1. throw or cast away
2. get rid of
Familiarity information: THROW AWAY used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• THROW AWAY (verb)
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
toss away; throw away; discard; chuck out; toss out; cast away; cast aside; dispose; put away; throw out; cast out; fling; toss
Context example:
Put away your worries
Hypernyms (to "throw away" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw away"):
de-access (dispose of by selling)
liquidize; sell out; sell up (get rid of all one's merchandise)
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
pension off; retire (dispose of; as of old clothes)
dump (throw away as refuse)
waste (get rid of)
junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))
jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)
deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)
unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Get rid of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cast off; throw off; shed; shake off; throw away; throw; cast; drop
Context examples:
he shed his image as a pushy boss / shed your clothes
Hypernyms (to "throw away" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw away"):
exuviate; molt; moult; shed; slough (cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers)
abscise (shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue)
exfoliate (cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters)
autotomise; autotomize (cause a body part to undergo autotomy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
