Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of throw-out English) vb. (context idiomatic English) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
WordNet
v. force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country" [syn: expel, kick out]
throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away]
put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom" [syn: expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out]
remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]
bring forward for consideration or acceptance; "advance an argument" [syn: advance]
cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; "This case is dismissed!" [syn: dismiss]
Usage examples of "throw out".
Well, you know jolly well that cuckoos go to other birds nests and throw out their eggs to smash on the ground, said Barbara.
Nor have Gall and his disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the phrenological characteristics of other beings than man.
You may throw out whatever remains in the storage room of the ship.
As it so happened there was not a window in the whole inn that looked outwards except a hole in the wall of a straw-loft through which they used to throw out the straw.
Whereas it was the principal and most peculiar characteristic of Socrates never to be provoked in a dispute, nor to throw out any reviling or injurious expressions, but to bear patiently with those who reviled him, and to put an end to the controversy.
The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects.
When he called for soothing syrup, did you venture to throw out any side-remarks about certain services being unbecoming an officer and a gentleman?
His time is spent in orgies, in dancing, in hawking and in shameful dalliance, and if we dare throw out a word of warning, threats and curses are the only answer we receive.
In the garden of his villa he at times amused himself with digging, and a very few turns of the spade sufficed to throw out some relic of antiquity.
The professor had stepped sharply up to Coke and looked at him with eyes that seemed to throw out flame and heat.