1 (remove) [+clothes, shoes, disguise] quitarse a toda prisa she threw off the dress she was wearing
2 (get rid of) [+depression] salir de he couldn't throw off his depression
[+cold, infection, habit] quitarse; [+burden, yoke] librarse de; quitarse de encima I can't seem to throw off this cold no consigo quitarme este resfriado
Miss Melville had not thrown off the ingrained habits of a lifetime in order to see her feelings in perspective and throw off the burden of gloom, she also needed to move to totally different surroundings the final struggle of Russia trying to throw off the yoke of Communism East European nations throw off Soviet domination
4 (make wrong) [+calculations, timing] desbaratar; dar al traste con when any one person fails to engage, it throws off everybody's timing this error threw off all our calculations
5 (emit) [+heat] despedir; emitir; [+sparks] echar as the wheel spins, it throws off tiny sparks the star threw off radiation Mount Unzen threw off red hot rocks and pumice
6 (informal) (write quickly) [+poem, composition] improvisar he can throw off a poem in half an hour
