throw something together
‘I'm sorry about the tuna salad, I just sort of threw it together’
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improvise, contrive, devise, throw together, cobble together, concoct, rig, jury-rig, put together
British informal knock up
informal whip up, fix up, rustle up
throw up
‘she threw up in the gutter’
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vomit, retch
cough up, bring up, regurgitate
heave, gag
British be sick
North American get sick
informal puke, chunder, chuck up, hurl, spew, do the technicolor yawn, keck
British informal honk, sick up, vom
Scottish informal boke
North American informal spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies, blow chunks
throw something off
‘he shrugged, trying to throw off the pain’
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get rid of, cast off, discard, shake off, drop, jettison, free oneself of, rid oneself of
throw something away
1‘he decided to throw away his textbooks and get some practical experience’
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discard, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, scrap, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, unload, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
recycle, break up, demolish, write off
informal chuck, chuck away, chuck out, ditch, bin, junk, get shut of
British informal get shot of, see the back of
North American informal trash, shuck off, wreck
2‘Cambridge threw away a 15–0 lead’
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squander, waste, fritter away, dissipate, run through, fail to exploit, make poor use of, lose, let slip
informal blow, chuck something down the drain, pour something down the drain
throw something out
1‘I was continually having to throw out mouldy furniture’
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discard, throw away, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, scrap, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, unload, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out
recycle, break up, demolish, write off
informal chuck, chuck away, chuck out, ditch, bin, junk, get shut of
British informal get shot of, see the back of
North American informal trash, shuck off, wreck
2‘his case was thrown out because an industrial tribunal was not entitled to deal with it’
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reject, dismiss, turn down, say ‘no’ to, refuse, disallow, veto, squash
informal give the thumbs down to, give the red light to
3‘a thermal light bulb throws out a lot of heat’
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radiate, emit, give off, send out, diffuse, disseminate, disperse
throw someone over
‘he's going to throw you over for your sister’
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abandon, leave, desert, discard, turn one's back on, cast aside, cast off
jilt, break up with, finish with, leave in the lurch, leave high and dry, leave stranded
informal dump, ditch, chuck, drop, walk out on, run out on, rat on, leave flat
British informal give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off
archaic forsake
throw someone out
‘Jim was thrown out when he climbed on to the stage’
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expel, eject, evict, drive out, force out, oust, remove
remove from office, remove from power, get rid of, depose, topple, unseat, overthrow, bring down, overturn, put out, drum out, thrust out, push out, turn out
dismiss, dislodge, displace, supplant, show someone the door
banish, deport, exile
informal boot out, kick out, give someone the boot, defenestrate
British informal turf out
throw something on
‘she threw on her clothes’
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put on quickly, pull on, drag on, don quickly, slip into
throw someone off
‘she thought she had thrown off her pursuer’
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shake off, get away from, escape, elude, give someone the slip, leave behind, throw off the scent, dodge, lose, get rid of, rid oneself of
outdistance, outstrip
British informal get shot of
throw something up
‘throwing up his career would have meant the end of financial support’
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give up, abandon, relinquish, resign, resign from, leave, eschew, abdicate
informal quit, chuck, pack in, jack in