thrown away

Verb

throw away (third-person singular simple present throws away, present participle throwing away, simple past threw away, past participle thrown away)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To waste, to squander.
   • Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.
3. (slang) To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
4. (idiomatic) 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