Dictionary entry details
• THROW OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Force to leave or move out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
expel; kick out; throw out
Context example:
He was expelled from his native country
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
deport; exile; expatriate (expel from a country)
debar; suspend (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)
deliver; deport; extradite (hand over to the authorities of another country)
banish; bar; relegate (expel, as if by official decree)
ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun (expel from a community or group)
ban; banish (ban from a place of residence, as for punishment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
toss out; toss away; throw away; discard; chuck out; cast aside; cast away; throw out; cast out; put away; dispose; fling; toss
Context example:
Put away your worries
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
turf out; eject; expel; chuck out; boot out; kick out; throw out; exclude; turn out
Context example:
The child was expelled from the classroom
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
bump; dislodge; displace (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
bounce (eject from the premises)
show the door (ask to leave)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Remove from a position or office
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
oust; drum out; boot out; kick out; expel; throw out
Context example:
The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
depose; force out (force to leave (an office))
excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Bring forward for consideration or acceptance
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
advance; throw out
Context example:
advance an argument
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
dismiss; throw out
Context example:
This case is dismissed!
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
