if you throw off a slight illness, you become healthy again
to escape from someone who is chasing you
to get rid of something that has prevented you from doing what you want to do or from behaving in the way that you want
to quickly remove a piece of clothing
to stop someone from finding you or from discovering the truth about something by using a clever plan or trick
Dieter threw off his clothes and dived into the water.
He had let himself be slugged to throw off suspicion, but they had hit him too hard and broken his collarbone.
He threw off his pursuers and fled across the border.
Healthy people should be able to throw off minor infections without antibiotics.
I can’t throw off this feeling of sadness.
She wanted to throw off the bare brown arm which rested lightly across her.
The distance from Ecuador to Sacramento is great enough that the curvature would throw off the transmissions.
They have thrown off the yoke of colonial rule.
`We could relive the experience and you could pretend you're an earnest schoolgirl who's managed to throw off her teachers.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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