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Synonyms for throw off

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

throw shed shake shake off put off bear off slip fling off

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Throw

throw, shed, drop, cast

2. Shake

shake, shake off

Other

put off, slip, bear off, fling off, expel, renounce

Noun

cast-off, throw-away

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.

    I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.

  2. v. 2

    To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.

    The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.

  3. n. 1

    A start in a hunt or a race.

Related words

Other spellings
throw-off

Example sentences

  • throw His house is within a stone's throw of his school.
  • shed Tom's body was found in the shed behind his house.
  • shake New GATT resolutions could create a real shake-up.

By length

4 letters
drop1, cast1, slip1, shed1
5 letters
throw1, shake1, expel2
8 letters
renounce2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (expel2 = 2 syllables).

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