THROW OUT


Meaning of THROW OUT in English

transitive verb

1.

a. : to remove from a place, office, or employment usually in a sudden or unexpected manner

your grooms … could perhaps throw me out — S.H.Adams

be thrown out again as a result of some fresh change in the political landscape — A.J.Toynbee

b. : to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary

people … won't throw out things fast enough to create new needs — K.D.Burke

2. : to give expression to : utter

threw out a remark … that utterly confounded him — Jean Stafford

merely throw out these considerations to the House — Sir Winston Churchill

3. : to dismiss from acceptance or consideration : reject

a coerced confession … is sure to be thrown out — Charles Oldfather

had thrown out certain specked ballots — E.F.Humphrey

4. : to make visible or manifest : display

the signal was thrown out for the … fleet to prepare for action — Archibald Duncan

5. : to leave behind : outdistance

had been unluckily thrown out and was riding fast to be in my place — Sir Walter Scott

6. : to give forth from or as if from within : emit

the radio throwing out a good tune — Anton Vogt

an apple tree … threw out a sharp scent — Edith Sitwell

7.

a. : to send out

urged the general to throw out … Indian scouts into the woods — H.E.Scudder

b. : to cause to project : extend

this whitish house with … the wing thrown out at right angles — Virginia Woolf

8. : to put out : confuse , disconcert

automobiles in line blocking the road … threw the whole schedule out — F.D.Roosevelt

anyone boorish … threw him out a little — Elizabeth Taylor

9. : to cause to stand out : make prominent or clear

the figures of … its greater men are thrown out plainly by their written works — H.O.Taylor

10.

a. : to run out (a cricket batsman) by breaking the wicket with a direct throw of a fielded ball

b. : to make a throw that enables a teammate in baseball to put out (a base runner)

11. : disengage

throw out the clutch

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