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

Meaning:

Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discard; throwing away

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)

 Context examples 

'We're throwing away the first three hours of the seismogram and what we're looking at is between three and 10 hours after a large earthquake happens,' Dr Tkalcic said.

(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He looked as handsome and as lively as ever, and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing-looking young woman, who leant on his arm, and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever, by being married already.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You think only of yourself, and because you do not feel for Mr. Crawford exactly what a young heated fancy imagines to be necessary for happiness, you resolve to refuse him at once, without wishing even for a little time to consider of it, a little more time for cool consideration, and for really examining your own inclinations; and are, in a wild fit of folly, throwing away from you such an opportunity of being settled in life, eligibly, honourably, nobly settled, as will, probably, never occur to you again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)