throw sth away/out
— phrasal verb with throw uk/θrəʊ/us/θroʊ/verb threw, thrown
B1 to get rid of something that you do not want any more:
So when are you going to throw away those old magazines?
More examples
- The next time she's late home, I'll throw her dinner away. That'll show her!
- Don't throw those bottles away - they'll come in handy for the picnic next Sunday.
- This meat is rather high - shall I throw it out?
- Sort out any clothes you want to throw away and give them to me.
- She carried out her threat to throw away any clothes that were left on the floor.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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