THROW OUT (threw out, throwing out, thrown out, throws out)

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Irregular inflected forms: threw out    , throwing out    , thrown out    , throws out   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does throw out mean? 

• THROW OUT (verb)
  The verb THROW OUT has 5 senses:

1. force to leave or move out

2. throw or cast away

3. remove from a position or office

4. bring forward for consideration or acceptance

5. cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration

  Familiarity information: THROW OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROW OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to leave or move out

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

expel; kick out; throw out

Context example:

He was expelled from his native country

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

Context example:

Put away your worries

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"):

deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

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)

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove from a position or office

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out

Context example:

The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds

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 4

Meaning:

Bring forward for consideration or acceptance

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advance; throw out

Context example:

advance an argument

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 5

Meaning:

Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

dismiss; throw out

Context example:

This case is dismissed!

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

We will suppose that he was travelling back to Woolwich when he was killed and thrown out of the compartment.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In vain were sword-sheaths, apple-branches and belts linked together thrown out to him by his companions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far be it from me to say otherwise; and anything in reason—a bow thrown out, perhaps—though, between ourselves, if there is one thing more than another my aversion, it is a patched-on bow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Finally, he took a sudden little run forward with both his hands thrown out in greeting.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She relieved me at the bailing-hole from time to time, and bravely she threw out the water and faced the storm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So amazed was I that I threw out my hand to make sure that the man himself was standing beside me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There has been a series of little circumstances which have thrown out all our calculations as to Lucy being properly watched.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Secondary crater chains, the most common of the linear features, are long strings of circular depressions created by fragments thrown out of large impact craters as they formed on Ceres.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

The man saved his life by instinctively throwing out his arm, but was hurled backward to the floor with Buck on top of him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)