📖 Definitions of "Throw off"
verb
- 1
To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
"I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses."
- 2
To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
"The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results."
- 3
Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- 4
To expel, reject, or renounce.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Throw off"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| shake offverb | To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking. |
| shakeverb | (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. |
| cast offverb | (transitive) To discard or reject something. |
| throw awayverb | (transitive) To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash. |
| throwverb | (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air. |
| castverb | (physical) To move, or be moved, away. |
| shedverb | A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut. |
| dropnoun | (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. |
| escape fromverb | get rid of |
| throw off the trailverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To misguide. |
| throw off balanceverb | (idiomatic) To unsettle, to catch by surprise. |
| disorientverb | To confuse or befuddle. |
| throw outverb | (idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away. |
| look offverb | (transitive, idiomatic, American football) To mislead by directing one's apparent attention away from one's true object of intent. |
| mix upverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To confuse or reverse. |
| confuseverb | (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand |
| embarrassverb | (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash. |
| eludeverb | (transitive) To evade or escape from (someone or something), especially by using cunning or skill. |
| confoundverb | To perplex or puzzle. |
| put offverb | (transitive) To postpone, especially through procrastination. |
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