TO THROW OFF

  

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TO THROW OFF

Definition: TO THROW OFF

TO THROW OFF

1. (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO THROW OFF

English words defined with "TO THROW OFF": Arris filletDespumateExcernTo cast a shoeWeather molding, Weather moulding. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO THROW OFF": KegSatanThermometer, to doff one's kit. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO THROW OFF": Diaphoresis. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: TO THROW OFF

AuthorQuotation

Richter

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time; the former grow upon it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: TO THROW OFF

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Thus, notwithstanding whatever title the kings of Assyria had over Judah, by the sword, God assisted Hezekiah to throw off the dominion of that conquering empire. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: TO THROW OFF

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: TO THROW OFF

Language Translations for "TO THROW OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

frakobling af boretromlen (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

het boorkabelwiel ontkoppelen (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

laskea vaijeri (to throw off the rope), irrottaa vaijeri voimansiirrosta (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

French

  

désenclencher le tambour de forage (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

German

  

das Seil abwerfen (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αποσυνδέω το βαρούλκο του γεωτρυπάνου (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

terel (head for, Shepherd, to baffle, to shepherd), félretesz (allocate, cast aside, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve), félrevezet (astray, bamboozle, hoodwink, misguide, mislead, misled, to abuse, to bamboozle, to blindfold, to cozen, to disorientate, to finagle, to keep tricking sy, to lead astray, to lead sy wrong, to misdirect, to mislead, to put off), félrevisz, kezd (began, begin, begun, commence, set in, start, to begin, to commence, to set in, to take the water, to turn it on), kezdeményez (initiate, launch, to inaugurate, to inchoate, to initiate, to launch, to take the initiative), kicsap (fire, to expel, to precipitate, to shoot out), kidob (drop, throw away, throw out, to bounce, to bundle off, to bundle out, to chuck out, to expel, to throw away, to throw out, to turn out, turn out), kirázza a kabátja, kirak (deplane, eject, empty, land, lay out, off-load, pave, put out, set, shore, to disburden, to discharge, to dump, to off-load, to row, to set, to stevedore, to unload), kivet (assess, impose, levy, to assess, to eject, to impose, to lay on, to levy, to rent), leállít (abort, cut off, halt, shut off, stop, to clamp down on sg, to come to a halt, to nab, to stall, to stem, to stopper), eldob (cast, discard, fling away, put off, threw, throw away, thrown, to abject, to cast away, to chuck, to chuck away, to discard, to throw, to throw away), leráz (shake down, shake off, to be quit of, to shake down, to shake off, to shift off), ujjából, levet (exuviate, throw off, to precipitate, to put off, to shuffle off, to slip, to take off), megkezd (began, begun, commence, start, to begin, to enter on, to incept, to inchoate, to initiate, to start on), megszabadítja magát, megszabadul (get free, get rid of, shake off, to be rid of sg, to dispose, to make a clear sweep of sg, to shake off, to unload), megtéveszt (bewilder, mystify, put by, to abuse, to cozen, to deceive, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to humbug, to mystify, to take in), nyomást leállít, odavet (to throw out), ráereszt, ráuszít (set on, to set on, to set upon), rögtönöz (ad lib, extemporize, improvise, to ad-lib, to extemporize, to improvise), rossz irányba, ledob (cast down, drop, precipitate, throw down, to drop, to pitch off, to precipitate, to release, to spill, to throw down, to toss off, to tumble down, toss off). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

脱ぎ捨てる (to fling, to kick off), 振り落す (to shake off). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふりおとす (to shake off, to shake or throw off), ぬぎすてる (to fling, to kick off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay owthray offay

   

Portuguese

  

libertação do tambor de sondagem (to throw off the rope), desengrenar o tambor de sondagem (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desembragar el tambor de perforación (to throw off the rope). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

frikoppla borrvinsch (to throw off the rope). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO THROW OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-h-o-o-o-r-t-t-w"

-3 letters: hotfoot.

-4 letters: toroth, trowth.

-5 letters: forth, froth, howff, ortho, rowth, thoro, throw, tooth, torot, troth, whoof, whort, worth, wroth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO THROW OFF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      54 48 52 4F 57      4F 46 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010111 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0054 0048 0052 004F 0057      004F 0046 0046

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449254425249572494040

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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