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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" [syn: expel, throw out, kick out]
2: throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away]
3: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]
4: bring forward for consideration or acceptance; "advance an argument" [syn: advance, throw out]
5: cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; "This case is dismissed!" [syn: dismiss, throw out]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 15th century 1. a. to remove from a place, office, or employment usually in a sudden or unexpected manner b. to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary 2. to give expression to ; utter <threw out a remark…that utterly confounded him — Jean Stafford> 3. to dismiss from acceptance or consideration ; reject <the testimony was thrown out> 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 6. to give forth from within ; emit 7. a. to send out b. to cause to project ; extend 8. confuse, disconcert <automobiles in line blocking the road…threw the whole schedule out — F. D. Roosevelt> 9. to cause to stand out ; make prominent 10. to make a throw that enables a teammate to put out (a base runner)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. see throw away 1 2. If a judge throws out a case, he or she rejects it and the accused person does not have to stand trial. The defense wants the district Judge to throw out the case. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 3. If you throw someone out, you force them to leave a place or group. He was thrown out of the Olympic team after testing positive for drugs... I wanted to kill him, but instead I just threw him out of the house... The party threw out the Trotskyist Militant Tendency. PHRASAL VERB: be/get V-ed P of n, V n P of n, V P n (not pron), also V n P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Reject, exclude, cast out, discard, expel. 2. Speak, utter, express.

Moby Thesaurus

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