to toss out
39
2.7
- phrasal verb
- /tɔs aʊt/
:
tirar
- The bouncers drag Stanley through the crowd and unceremoniously toss him out into the rain-slick street.
Once one thing goes, you start reconciling yourself with tossing out lots of things.
- Once one thing goes, you start reconciling yourself with tossing out lots of things.
- You know, it's, it's they bring value to the, to the experience and they're tossed out because they're too white.
- And I think she went ape and, you know, nuts when her lawsuit was tossed out.
- Imagine that you were still just taking those stones out of your pocket, tossing them out.
- Dozens of interviews conducted across Japan compelled Men to toss out virtually all of her earlier draft and to rewrite Pachinko.
- And that they can just toss out the window without a thought and turn around and say, my loyalty is to one man.
- So shortly after I joined the FTC, the court, you know, tossed out the complaint against Facebook, and we had an opportunity to refile it.
- I will give all kudos to the director, F Gary Gray, that because we were tossing out papers every day from the script and he's like, this movie has to make sense.
- So like, if you toss those out combined, they're over a million, OK a month.
Examples
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She realized she had too many clothes and began to toss out items that didn't fit her style anymore.
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Once one thing goes, you start reconciling yourself with tossing out lots of things.
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But the first day he got home, he just tossed them out.
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I thought it was such a waste just to toss them out.
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I pulled the rock that guy had given her off her finger and tossed it out the car window.
Fiction book (1998) -
Two pace back and forth, smoking cigarettes as they toss out ideas.
Fiction book (1994) -
So whenever anybody finds something interesting in their attic or the woods or anything, instead of tossing out, they just give it to me.
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A gym bag is tossed out into a garbage dumpster below the window.
Fiction book (1994) -
When you work the door, greet the visitors and toss out the troublemakers.
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Yeah, the land is so rich out here, all you gotta do is toss out a handful of seeds and up pops a corn patch 10 feet tall.
Synonyms
∞
1.6
To remove or throw away something you do not want
541
2.6
To drop or throw things away in a careless way
477
1.8
To get rid of something you do not want, for example by putting it in the bin
348
1.0
To throw something lightly to another person
234
4.4
To abandon a person, plan, or thing suddenly
202
1.8
To put something in the trash because you do not want it
149
3.4
Get rid of something by throwing it away, selling it, or giving it to someone
131
3.5
To get rid of something you do not need
130
2.7
To throw something away because you no longer want or need it
34
1.0
To throw away something you no longer want
31
6.2
Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them
30
3.7
To throw away something that is no longer useful
29
7.8
Throw things from a ship or plane to make it lighter
13
3.0
To throw away things that are no longer useful
11
3.7
Reject or ignore people and things you no longer want
7
8.6
Get rid of someone or something you no longer want
5
2.0
To throw something away because you no longer want or need it
4
4.1
To throw away things you no longer want
1
3.7
To throw away things you do not want
1
6.0
To reject or get rid of something no longer needed
1
7.5
To get rid of something unwanted, for example a bad habit or a weak branch
1
8.6
To get rid of something permanently
1
9.1
To give up something important in a careless or disrespectful way
To throw something away and stop using it
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to throw away; discard' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'toss' (to throw casually) with the directional particle 'out' (away/from the interior). This verb+particle composition is a common, predictable phrasal-verb pattern in English (and mirrors similar constructions in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The verb toss out comes from the simple image of using toss, meaning a light throw, and out, meaning away or into the bin, to send something into the trash. So, it means 'to throw away' or 'to get rid of' something you no longer want.