Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer. 2 (context idiomatic English) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
WordNet
v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw away, drop]
get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me" [syn: shake, shake off, escape from]
Usage examples of "throw off".
They also observed that insects coming close to the surface and apparently inhaling it, rapidly increased in size and weight, from which they concluded it must throw off nitrogen, carbon, or some other nourishment in the form of gas.
Moreover, many tribes took this occasion of the trouble of the Aztecs to throw off their allegiance or vassalage, and even if they did not join the Spaniards, to remain neutral watching for the event of the war.
As they wrestled his assailant to the floor, Thaddeus realized that the first shot had been the backfire of a passing vehicle, and that the unexpected noise had startled his grandson enough to throw off his aim.
I knew that he would do it, my faith was complete, and yet so great was the mental effort that I made to throw off the hideous bonds of my mutilated flesh that I felt a momentary qualm of nausea and then a sharp click as of the snapping of a steel wire, and suddenly I stood naked upon two good legs looking down upon the bloody, distorted thing that had been I.
Louis XV, satisfied with his condescension in my behalf, would have kept him at the head of his ministry: but his pride ruined him, he could not throw off the yoke which the duchesse de Grammont had imposed on him: he recoiled from the idea of telling her that he had made a treaty of peace with me, and that was not one of the least causes of his disgrace.
I don't want any more rods brought out here to throw off the force field we've created.
For the girl could not throw off the bonds that held her to Aldis’.
You know how backward and suppressed we are here, or you wouldn't have joined with roc to help throw off the yoke around our planet's neck.
You know how backward and suppressed we are here, or you wouldn't have joined with me to help throw off the yoke around our planet's neck.
He paused a moment to throw off his cloak, of which the young man who had admitted him hastened to relieve him as readily as if he had been born a servitor.
I can throw off the wolf shape for a little while during the dark of the moon.
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Further, as this tentacle flailed about, it seemed to throw off things from its rugose surface which hit against the walls, floor and ceiling of the room.
The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in color, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapor.
I am a coward not to throw off the saintly mask, and appear as a Freethinker.