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THROWING AWAY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does throwing away mean?

• THROWING AWAY (noun)
The noun THROWING AWAY has 1 sense:

1. getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

Familiarity information: THROWING AWAY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• THROWING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

throwing away; discard

Hypernyms ("throwing away" is a kind of...):

abandonment (the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "throwing away"):

staging (getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket)

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