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TOSS AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toss away mean? 

TOSS AWAY (verb)
  The verb TOSS AWAY has 1 sense:

1. throw or cast awayplay

  Familiarity information: TOSS AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOSS AWAY (verb)


Sense 1

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 "toss away" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "toss away"):

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

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

jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

waste (get rid of)

dump (throw away as refuse)

retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

de-access (dispose of by selling)

close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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