throw away
throw away verb: to discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
Verb
throw away (third-person singular simple present throws away, present participle throwing away, simple past threw away, past participle thrown away)
- To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
- He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can.
- Don't throw the newspaper away, it goes in the recycle bin!
- To waste, to squander.
- Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.
- The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.
- To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
- To give lightly, in an offhand manner.
- As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne.2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
throw away meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
throw away in Tamil
- உத்து
throw away in Marathi
- to throw away, to discard
- टाकणे ṭākṇe
throw away in Bengali
- to throw away, to dispose of
- ফেলা phela
throw away in Telugu
- discard or dispose of
- పారవేయుట pāravēyuṭa
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- throw away in Malayalam
- ഉപേക്ഷിക്കുക upēkṣikkuka
- throw away in Kannada
- ಅಸಿ asi
- throw away in Odia
- ଫୋପାଡ଼ିବା phopāṛibā, ପକାଇବା pakāibā
- throw away in Sanskrit
- क्षिप् kṣip
- throw away in Assamese
- পেলোৱা pelüa, পেলা pela
- throw away in Arabic
- طَرَحَ ṭaraḥa
- throw away in Indonesian
- buang
- throw away in Persian
- دور انداختن dur andâxtan
- throw away in Thai
- ทิ้ง thing
- throw away in Vietnamese
- vất, vứt, vứt bỏ, bỏ đi
Forms of throw away
| third-person singular present | throws away |
|---|---|
| present participle | throwing away |
| past | threw away |
| past participle | thrown away |
Origin of throw away
From throw + away. First attested in the late 14c.
Words formed from throw away
Questions about throw away
- What does throw away mean?
- Throw away means to discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
- What is throw away in Tamil?
- Throw away in Tamil is உத்து. See Throw away meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is throw away?
- Throw away is a verb.
- What is the past tense of throw away?
- The past tense of throw away is threw away.
Words near throw away in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: throw away (page history and authors); throw away (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); टाकणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); ফেলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ಅಸಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ପକାଇବା (Odia) (page history and authors); क्षिप् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); পেলা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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