THROW OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throw off mean? 

• THROW OFF (verb)
  The verb THROW OFF has 2 senses:

1. get rid of

2. get rid of

  Familiarity information: THROW OFF used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROW OFF (verb)

Sense 1

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 off" 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 off"):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get rid of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

escape from; shake; shake off; throw off

Context example:

I couldn't shake the car that was following me

Hypernyms (to "throw off" is one way to...):

break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

We zig-zagged swiftly here and there over Europe to throw off the pursuers and finally returned to this house, which he had taken upon his first arrival in England.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had been run down, and he had not had the strength to throw off the germ of disease which had invaded his system.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nay, said the little knight, it would be scarce fitting that a cavalier should throw off his harness for the fear of every puff of wind and puddle of water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Traddles broke into a rapturous laugh, and informed me that it was Sophy's writing; that Sophy had vowed and declared he would need a copying-clerk soon, and she would be that clerk; that she had acquired this hand from a pattern; and that she could throw off—I forget how many folios an hour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Let me then advise you, dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression, and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange, in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, however, and in the light of that morning’s accident, I was led to remark that whereas, in the beginning, the difficulty had been to throw off the body of Jekyll, it had of late gradually but decidedly transferred itself to the other side.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)