The Collaborative International Dictionary
throw away \throw away\ v. t.
to discard.
to waste or squander.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To waste, to squander.
WordNet
v. 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, cast away, put away]
get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, drop]
Usage examples of "throw away".
Not after the way half of their voters figure the Star Kingdom was willing to throw away the entire Alliance for purely domestic political advantages.
The word in the kitchens was that Lord Kalith was going to throw away the key.
It probably wasn't worth the weight of carrying it, but he hated to throw away anything of possible use when the margin was so thin.
They precisely obeyed the directions which had been given, and hardly had the water begun to bubble with the heat than there came running the hag whom they had suspected, imploring them with every symptom of intense agony to throw away the contents of the pot.
It may be possible to talk the people aboard that ship into surrendering, if we take out their groundside buddies, but I'm not prepared to throw away the lives of cadremen in a fundamentally hopeless effort to capture an orbiting bomb with a suicide switch.
There may be a letter or two among them--nothing of much account, but I don't like to throw away the whole lot without having them looked over and I haven't time to do it myself.
But even those who have undergone a mutilation cannot have their inclinations also mutilated: and so Epicurus, when he had mutilated all the offices of a man, of a master of a family, of a citizen, and of a friend, did not mutilate the inclinations of humanity, for he could not, any more than the idle Academics can throw away, or blind their own senses, though this be, of all others, the point they labour most.
I might have know'd, as nobody but an infernal, rich, plundering, thundering old Jew could afford to throw away any drink but water—.