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toss away

v. throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away]

Usage examples of "toss away".

Gerwita read aloud to Mother Obligatia in a voice so soft it was inaudible from a stone's toss away.

Branches splintered, torn free by the wind, and crashed to the ground a stone's toss away.

Tentatively she sat up and shook her head, as if trying to toss away thoughts that did not belong.

This allows a player to win wild applause and be pelted by bouquets hurled by lovely ladies, who often hurl themselves as well, simply by pausing to cough during a performance and then wiping his lips with a handkerchief daubed with blood-red rouge, and when the other members of the orchestra can bear it no more they toss away their instruments and set upon the bastard with fists, feet, and fangs.

Do you think you have the right to toss away what you've been given?

With no surprise he watched the figure at the end of the pier get to its feet, shed the blanket and toss away the hat so that the dawn sun gleamed on the bald scalp.

What she'd said was the exact truth, because Giscard was entirely too good a commander to toss away over one busted operation.

I wanted to toss away its frame and knock down the wall it hung on.