Throw Away

Definition: Throw Away

Throw Away

Verb

1. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

2. Get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Throw Away

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Resolution

Devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm; (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer.

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Waste

Cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander.

Crosswords: Throw Away

Throw away your self-pity and come get drunk with us. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

You don't just throw away your dream! (Center Stage; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen)

Remember, never throw away a chance for happiness too quicklyit can get to be a habit. (The Christine Jorgensen Story; writing credit: Christine Jorgensen; Robert E. Kent)

When you catch that kidnapper, I want you to lock me in a room with him for 20 minutes and throw away the key. (Ransom!; writing credit: Cyril Hume ; Richard Maibaum)

Lock me away inside of your love and throw away the key. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

No concrete just sand, throw away your shoes (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Don't throw away your basic needs, (December; performing artist: Collective Soul)

Throw away all the pain that I'm living (#1 Crush; performing artist: Garbage)

The way we get away, throw away a whole day (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Better Way Than Throw Away (reference)

• Penny: Throw Away Dog (reference)

• Perfect Speed or Throw Away That Plan : A Handbook for Overcoming Beliefs (reference)

• Throw Away Your Pencil: Write More Effectively With a Word Processor (reference)

• Throw Away Your Resume (3rd Ed) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Just a Stone's Throw Away (reference)

• Throw Away the Key (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You have the power to throw away this wealth, and to think me ridiculous into the bargain.

Throw away the first three at least.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "throw away": throw away a chance ♦ To throw away. Additional references.

Albanian

hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, clear out, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, reject, scrap, throw). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, discard, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, reject, rejection, relegate, reprobate, scrap, slough), ‏طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, toss). (various references)

Aymara

jaqomucuña (to throw away). (various references)

Basque

bota (shoe, throw away to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разхищавам (lavish), хвърлям на вятъра, хабя (waste), пропускам (admit, drop, fail, let in, let slip by, lose, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, run, skip), пилея (lavish, overspend, potter away, scatter, skittle, slather, throw about, wanton, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

�'� (clip, shorten). (various references)

Czech

zahodit (chuck away, throw out, throw up), promarnit (dawdle away, dissipate, fritter away, squander, throw up, trifle away, waste), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off), odhodit (cast off, chuck away, discard). (various references)

Dutch

wegwerpen, weggooien, vergooien. (various references)

Esperanto

forĵeti. (various references)

Faeroese

forkoma, beina burtur (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, put away, remove, store, turn away). (various references)

Finnish

heittää pois (discard, dispose of). (various references)

French

rejeter (give thumbs down, throw out, throw over, throw up), perdre, lancer (throw, throw out, throw up), laisser tomber (throw down, throw over), jeter (throw, throw out, throw up), gaspiller (run through), gâcher (go to the dogs). (various references)

German

wegwerfen (cast away, discard, dump, jettison, pitch out, scrap, throw out, throwaway, to throw away, toss away, toss out, trash). (various references)

Greek 

πετάω, χάνω (lose, lose out, mislay, miss, muff). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שיל (discard, drop off, shed), ל�"שיר (cast off, discard, drop, let fall). (various references)

Hungarian

szórólap (leaflet, throwaway), reklámcédula (advertising sheet, leaflet, throwaway), kidob (drop, throw out, to bounce, to bundle off, to bundle out, to chuck out, to expel, to throw away, to throw off, to throw out, to turn out, turn out), eldob (cast, discard, fling away, put off, threw, thrown, to abject, to cast away, to chuck, to chuck away, to discard, to throw, to throw away, to throw off). (various references)

Italian

buttar via (pour away, pour off, pour out, scrap, sling out, throwaway). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

身�'捨てる (to throw away one's life), 投�'捨てる (to throw away), �"ち捨てる (to abandon, to throw away), 書き捨てる (to begin writing then stop part-way through, to write and throw away, to write carelessly), 捨てる　 (to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), 捨てる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), 取り捨てる (to throw away). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すてる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), な�'すてる (to throw away), うちすてる (to abandon, to throw away), かきすてる (to begin writing then stop part-way through, to write and throw away, to write carelessly), み�'すてる (to throw away one's life), とりすてる (to throw away). (various references)

Malay

buang ... membuang. (various references)

Manx

ceau voish (fling away), ceau ersooyl (discard, dispose). (various references)

Occitan

getar, escampar. (various references)

Pig Latin

owthray awayay

Portuguese

jogar fora (br.) (eject, fling, reject, riot, scrap, vandalize), desperdiçar (fiddle, fritter, lose, racket, skittle away, squander, trifle, waste). (various references)

Romanian

risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, vanish, waste), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, spill, waste), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble). (various references)

Russian 

выбрасывать (cast away, ejaculate, eject, emit, expel, scrapping, throw out, toss out, turf out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasipati (misspend, slather, waste), propustiti (leave out, let by, lose, miss, miss out, omit, pass, pass through, skip), profućkati, odbaciti (abandon, cast aside, cast away, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, toss off). (various references)

Spanish

tirar (burn, cast, discard, dispose of, drag, draw, draw out, fire, haul, heave, kiss off, knock off, lay, pitch, print, pull, shoot, tell off, throw, throw about, throw aside, throw out, to throw, toss away, toss over, tug, turn out), sacrificar inútilmente, quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), perder todo el efecto de, meter (cause, dip, enclose, engage, Fay, inclose, insert, introduce, intrude, involve, jug, jump on, key, lay down, Lodge, log in, make, place, poke, put, put down, shove, sink, Stow, telescope, throw about, throw on, thrust, tuck in, turf out, yank off), malgastar (dawdle, fritter, idle away, misspend, squander, trifle away, waste), hacer un sacrificio, echar (add, affix, blow, blow out, bud, cast, cast up, chuck, chuck out, detrude, draw, drop, eject, fall back, fasten, kick out, lay, order off, order out, oust, post, pour, pump, push out, put, put down as, put forth, put on, put out, send, send away, send forth, send out, shoot, shoot forth, shoot out, sick, tack on, tell off, throw, throw in, throw on, throw out, throw up, tick off, tip, toss, toss away, toss over, turf out, turn out), desperdiciar (dissipate, misspend, trifle away, waste), desechar (cast aside, cast away, discard, discount, dismiss, lay aside, put aside, put away, reject, scrap, shuck off, throw aside, throw out, throwaway), derrochar (dissipate, waste), dejar caer (droop, drop, fumble), decir al azar, botar (bounce, bound, dispose of, launch, sail, throw, throw aside, throw out, turn out). (various references)

Sranan

trowe. (various references)

Swedish

vräka bort, slå bort (brush away, knock down, pass off, put aside), kasta bort (cast away, discard, fling away, jettison, scrap, throw to the dogs). (various references)

Turkish

ziyan etmek (consume, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, throw to the dogs), boşa harcamak (cast away, chuck away, dissipate, fling away, footle, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, idle, idle away, lavish, misapply, misspend, pass away, pour down the drain, scatter, squander, squander away, throw to the dogs, trifle away, waste), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void). (various references)

Ukrainian

відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), витрачати (consume, disburse, dispend, expend, hand out, spend, use, use up, ware, waste), пропустити (pretermit). (various references)

1. rig. (various references)

iace, iacere, iacerent, iaceret, iachin, iaciam, iaciat, iaciebant, iaciendos, iaciens, iacientes, iacies, iaciet, iacio, iacitur, iacobi, iacta, iactabatur, iactabitis, iactandos, iactantes, iactantibus, iactaret, iactasset, iactat, iactatis, iactaverunt, iacto, iactu, iactus, iecerit, iecit, proice, proicere, proicerent, proiceret, proici, proiciam, proiciamus, proicias, proiciatur, proiciemini, proiciens, proicient, proiciente, proicientes, proicientibus, proicientur, proicies, proiciet, proicietis, proicietur, proicis, proicit, proicite, proieceram, proiecerant, proieceras, proiecerat, proiecerim, proiecerit, proiecerunt, proieceruntque, proieci, proiecisset, proiecisti, proiecistis, proiecit, proiecitque, proiecta, proiecti, proiectis, proiecto, proiectum, proiectus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: throwaway.

-2 letters: towaway.

-3 letters: worthy, wrathy.

-4 letters: aorta, arhat, hoary, rayah, rhyta, rowth, thraw, throw, torah, warty, whort, worth, wrath, wroth.

-5 letters: ahoy, arty, away, awry, ayah, haar, hart, hoar, hora, hoya, oath, rath, rato, raya, rota, ryot, tahr, taro, thaw, thro, tora, tory, towy, tray, trow, troy, tyro, wart, wary, what, whoa, wort.

+1 letter: throwaways.