English
Pronunciation
Verb
throw away (third-person singular simple present throws away , present participle throwing away , simple past threw away , past participle thrown away )
( transitive ) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out , to put in the trash , to dispose of.
He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can.
Don't throw the newspaper away , it goes in the recycle bin!
( transitive , figuratively ) To waste , to squander .
Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away .
The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.
1975 , Freddie Mercury , “Bohemian Rhapsody ” (song), in Queen (band), A Night at the Opera (album):
Mama, life has just begun. / But now I've gone and thrown it all away .
2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport [1] :Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.
( American football , slang ) To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
( idiomatic ) To give lightly, in an offhand manner.
2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club [2] :As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne.
Derived terms
Translations
discard or dispose of
Arabic: طَرَحَ ( ṭaraḥa )
Armenian: թափել (hy) ( tʻapʻel ) , դեն նետել ( den netel ) , գցել (hy) ( gcʻel ) , ( colloquial ) շպրտել (hy) ( šprtel )
Catalan: llençar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 棄置 / 弃置 (zh) ( qìzhì ) , 弃置 (zh) ( qìzhì ) , 扔 (zh)
Dalmatian: botur
Dutch: weggooien (nl)
Esperanto: forĵeti
Finnish: heittää pois (fi) , ( colloquial ) heittää menemään (fi) , heittää roskiin
French: rejeter (fr) , jeter (fr)
Georgian: გადაგდება ( gadagdeba ) , გადაყრა ( gadaq̇ra )
German: fortwerfen , wegwerfen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἀποβάλλω ( apobállō )
Hebrew: זרק (he) ( zarák )
Hungarian: eldob (hu)
Italian: buttare via
Japanese: 棄てる (ja) ( すてる, suteru ) , 捨てる (ja) ( すてる, suteru )
Khmer: បោះចោល ( bɑh caol )
Korean: 버리다 (ko) ( beorida )
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Kurdish:
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Latin: abiciō (la)
Mongolian: татгалзах (mn) ( tatgalzax )
Ngazidja Comorian: ulatsa
Norwegian: kaste (no)
Old English: please add this translation if you can
Persian: دور انداختن ( dur andâxtan )
Portuguese: jogar fora
Quechua: wikch'uy
Romanian: arunca (ro)
Russian: выбра́сывать (ru) impf ( vybrásyvatʹ ) , вы́бросить (ru) pf ( výbrositʹ ) ; выки́дывать (ru) impf ( vykídyvatʹ ) , вы́кинуть (ru) pf ( výkinutʹ )
Spanish: tirar (es) , echar (es) , desechar (es)
Swedish: kasta bort
Telugu: పారవేయుట ( pāravēyuṭa )
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: དོར་བ ( dor ba )
Turkish: atmak (tr)
Vietnamese: vất , vứt (vi) , vứt bỏ (vi)
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