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past participle of throw away
Synonyms & Antonyms of thrown away
1
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- I should throw away that torn shirt
Synonyms for thrown away
- cashiered,
- cast (off),
- chucked,
- deep-sixed,
- discarded,
- ditched,
- dumped,
- eighty-sixed
- (or 86'd),
- exorcised
- (also exorcized),
- flung (off or away),
- jettisoned,
- junked,
- laid by,
- lost,
- pitched,
- rejected,
- scrapped,
- shed,
- shucked (off),
- sloughed (off)
- also sluffed (off),
- thrown out,
- tossed,
- unloaded
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2
to use up carelessly
- 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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“Thrown away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thrown%20away. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021.
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