throw off

1. (idiomatic)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. (idiomatic)To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.

   The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.

3. (transitive)Of a horse, to eject its rider.

4. To fling away.

5. To expel, reject, or renounce.

6. To split off.

7. To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.

8. To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.

9. (informal, transitive)To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.

   She threw off her coat.

   to remove

10. (Australia, slang)To insult or verbally abuse (someone).

11. Synonym of bear off.

1. Tom was thrown off the bus.

   deTom wurde aus dem Bus geworfen.

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2. Tom was thrown off his horse.

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3. Tom got thrown off his horse.

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4. Tom got thrown off the basketball team.

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5. Tom was thrown off the basketball team.

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irregular · Lesson

• throw upрвати, блюватиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, up.
• throw offупустити, упускатиTo confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
• throw outвміти, умітиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, out.
• throw inздаватися, кидатиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, in.
• throw overздаватися, кидатиTo discard or give up (a plan or project, etc.).
• throw awayвикинути, викидатиTo discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
• throw asideвідмовлятися, відкидатиSynonym of discard.
• throw onTo hastily put on (clothes).