THROWING AWAY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

Synonyms:

discard; throwing away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

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