THROW AWAY

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

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"):

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

waste (get rid of)

dump (throw away as refuse)

retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

de-access (dispose of by selling)

close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get rid of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off

Context example:

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

 Context examples 

She would not be so weak as to throw away the comfort of a child, and yet retain the anxiety of a parent!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ah! it was an ill and sorry thing that so many should throw away the lives that Heaven gave them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"To be sure," rejoined his brother; "it would be a thousand pities to throw away such a chance of fun."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We should have ready some plan of attack, so that we may throw away no chance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then the prince took care to throw away the sleeping draught; and when Lily came and began again to tell him what woes had befallen her, and how faithful and true to him she had been, he knew his beloved wife’s voice, and sprang up, and said, You have awakened me as from a dream, for the strange princess had thrown a spell around me, so that I had altogether forgotten you; but Heaven hath sent you to me in a lucky hour.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Lotty reported that they had eaten "a much, and greatly laughed, and the master bid her throw away all the sweet stuff, and hide the pots."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)