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throwing away

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Noun1.throwing awaythrowing away - getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
discard
abandonment - the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
staging - getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket
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In so doing, we do not only consult our own dignity and ease, but the good and advantage of the reader: for besides that by these means we prevent him from throwing away his time, in reading without either pleasure or emolument, we give him, at all such seasons, an opportunity of employing that wonderful sagacity, of which he is master, by filling up these vacant spaces of time with his own conjectures; for which purpose we have taken care to qualify him in the preceding pages.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
Philip's change of mind caused him bitter distress, and he really thought he was throwing away his chance of happiness in life for he knew not what.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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