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Definition of Throwing away
1. Noun. Getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable.
Generic synonyms: Abandonment
Specialized synonyms: Staging
Derivative terms: Discard
Definition of Throwing away
1. Verb. (present participle of throw away) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Throwing Away
Literary usage of Throwing away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Magnentius then consulted his safety, and throwing away the Imperial ornaments,
escaped with some difficulty from the pursuit oT the light horse, ..."
2. Grover Cleveland: A Record of Friendship by Richard Watson Gilder (1910)
"throwing away THE PRESIDENCY I never saw Mr. Cleveland more elated than after he
had thrown the Presidency out of the window by his anti-free-silver letter ..."
3. Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Georgina Hogarth (1891)
"It is a combination of drollery with romance which requires a great deal of pains
and a perfect throwing away of points that might be amplified; ..."
4. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"Another dance, tabooed by the government is called the "Throwing- Away " or "
Giving-Away " dance, and is not the property of an organization. ..."
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