transitive verb
transitive verb
1.
a. : to free oneself from : get rid of
his only chance of throwing off the evil spell — Bill Beatty
throw off his political masters and start a revolution — T.P.Whitney
b. : to cast off often in a hurried or vigorous manner : abandon , discard
threw off his coat and went to work
threw off all sense of restraint
c. : to shake off : divert
wasn't to be thrown off by a false scent — Blackwood's
2. : to make a start with in a hunt
throw off thy ready pack — William Somerville
3. : to give off : emit , eject
mills throwing off … greenish clouds of smoke — American Guide Series: Connecticut
4. : to produce in or as if in an offhand manner : execute with speed or facility
some little scrap of tune that the composer had thrown off — James Hilton
can throw off a criticism of eighteenth-century architecture or of the fad for whole-meal bread — Times Literary Supplement
5. : to remove (a man) from the backgammon board after all the men are home
6.
a. : to cause to depart from an expected or desired course
hidden assumptions threw the Newtonian calculations off just the smallest bit — T.H.Littlefield
violation of form had thrown the whole story off — Alec Rackowe
b. : to cause to make a mistake or form a wrong impression : mislead
it had been her thick accent that had thrown me off — Richard Wright
intransitive verb
1. : to begin hunting
2. : to make derogatory comments : cast aspersions
was constantly throwing off on the neighbors