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throwing awaynoun the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or uselessthe throwing away of her old stuffed animals marked the beginning of her mental preparation for an independent life as a college student discarding, disposal, disposition, dumping, jettison, junking, removal, riddance, scrapping clearance, clearingdecimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction accumulation, acquirement, acquisition, collection, deposit, gathering throwing awayverbpresent participle of throw awayto get rid of as useless or unwantedI should throw away that torn shirt cashiering, casting (off), chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing (off)also sluffing (off), throwing out, tossing, unloading abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out disposing of, setting aside adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining to use up carelesslyif you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use blowing, dissipating, fiddling away, frittering (away), lavishing, losing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, trifling (away), wasting splurgingconsuming, depleting, exhausting, impoverishing, overspending, shootingindulging, overindulgingdisbursing, expending, laying out playing ducks and drakes with(or making ducks and drakes of) conserving economizing, scrimping, skimpingpreserving, protecting, savinghoarding, laying up |