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- the throwing away of her old stuffed animals marked the beginning of her mental preparation for an independent life as a college student
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of throwing away (Entry 2 of 2)
- I should throw away that torn shirt
Synonyms for throwing away
- 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
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- if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use
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“Throwing away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwing%20away. Accessed 24 May. 2022.
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