toss out
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To throw away; to get rid of; to dispose of (something, especially food that has gone bad).
Informal; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "My grandmother said being organized led to success, so I set out to turn our fridge into a liquid dieter's paradise. First was detoxing the kitchen. I tossed out everything that would lead to temptation, like the leftover candy from Halloween, as well as everything that was expired and rotten."
- "The judge tossed out her testimony when it came to light that she was getting paid as a contractor by the defendant."