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THROW OUT
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Irregular inflected forms: threw out , throwing out , thrown out , throws out
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
Example:
This case is dismissed!
Synonyms:
dismiss; throw out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Bring forward for consideration or acceptance
Example:
advance an argument
Synonyms:
advance; throw out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Throw or cast away
Example:
Put away your worries
Synonyms:
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)
de-access (dispose of by selling)
liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)
abandon (forsake, leave behind)
retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))
dump (throw away as refuse)
waste (get rid of)
junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))
jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)
deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)
unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Remove from a position or office
Example:
The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
Synonyms:
boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)
depose; force out (force to leave (an office))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Force to leave or move out
Example:
He was expelled from his native country
Synonyms:
expel; kick out; throw out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "throw out" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "throw out"):
boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out (put out or expel from a place)
deport; exile; expatriate (expel from a country)
debar; suspend (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)
deliver; deport; extradite (hand over to the authorities of another country)
banish; bar; relegate (expel, as if by official decree)
ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun (expel from a community or group)
ban; banish (ban from a place of residence, as for punishment)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
Some of them ran away, the others he killed, and threw out into the fish-pond.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I could not see her face in the darkness, but her arms were thrown out in an attitude of entreaty.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He knew the injustice and greediness of the older dogs when meat or fish was thrown out to be eaten.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I confine myself to throwing out the observation, that, at the hour and place I have indicated, may be found such ruined vestiges as yet
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As a result, he concentrated with a similar singleness of purpose, greedily snapping up the hints and suggestions thrown out by his working mate.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Both men were plainly the worse of drink, and they were still drinking, for even while I was listening, one of them, with a drunken cry, opened the stern window and threw out something, which I divined to be an empty bottle.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But this conciliation was not granted; for though she often threw out expressions of pity for her sister to Elinor, and more than once dropt a reflection on the inconstancy of beaux before Marianne, no effect was produced, but a look of indifference from the former, or of disgust in the latter.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The hint of danger which Norbury threw out was the one thing needed to harden his resolution.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Now, Watson,” said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
