Usually means: Cause to lose balance, focus.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word throw off:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. throw off: Merriam-Webster
  3. throw-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. throw-off, throw-off, throw off: Collins English Dictionary
  5. throw off: Vocabulary.com
  6. throw-off: Wordnik
  7. throw-off, throw off: Wiktionary
  8. Throw-off, throw off: Dictionary.com
  9. Throw-off: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. throw-off: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. throw off: Rhymezone
  12. Throw-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. throw-off, throw off: FreeDictionary.org
  14. throw off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Throw-off, throw off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Throw Off: Backgammon
  2. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Throw off: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (throw off)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
▸ verb:  To fling away.
▸ verb:  To expel, reject, or renounce.
▸ verb:  To split off.
▸ verb:  To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
▸ verb:  To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
▸ verb:  (informal, transitive) To remove (clothing) haphazardly and tossing it on the floor.
▸ verb:  (slang, Australia) To insult or verbally abuse (someone).
▸ verb:  (backgammon) Synonym of bear off
▸ noun:  Alternative form of throw-off [(UK) A start in a hunt or a race.]

Similar:
cast off, throw away, shake off, throw, drop, cast, shake, shed, escape from, throw off the trail, more...

Opposite:
retain, keep, hold on to

Types:
disrupt, interrupt, distract, divert, sidetrack, deflect, derail, more...

Phrases:
throw off balance, throw off the scent, to throw off, throw off the trail, throw off guard, more...

Adjectives:
fade, clear, away, off, cut out, street, breakaway, offn, fire, alight, gone

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Similar:
cast off, throw away, shake off, throw, drop, cast, shake, shed, escape from, throw off the trail, more...

Opposite:
retain, keep, hold on to

Types:
disrupt, interrupt, distract, divert, sidetrack, deflect, derail, more...

Phrases:
throw off balance, throw off the scent, to throw off, throw off the trail, throw off guard, throw off the boat, throw someone off, throw off course, throw oneself off a cliff, to throw off track, more...

Adjectives:
fade, clear, away, off, cut out, street, breakaway, offn, fire, alight, gone



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