What are the opposite words for throwing off?

Throwing off means to cast aside or get rid of something. Some antonyms for throwing off are holding on, keeping, retaining, and preserving. Instead of throwing off a habit or a relationship, one can maintain it, embrace it, or safeguard it. Keeping an object close instead of throwing it off could indicate an attachment or importance to the item. Retaining something instead of throwing it away could imply a sense of value or usefulness. Preserving an item or relationship means to actively take steps to ensure its survival and longevity. Using antonyms for throwing off can convey a sense of responsibility and intentionality in one's actions.

What are the antonyms for Throwing off?

• n.

  • getting
  • alterings
  ,
  • appropriatings
  ,
  • assimilatings
  ,
  • be coming
  ,
  • be comings
  ,
  • be-coming
  ,
  • be-comings
  ,
  • becomings
  ,
  • capturings
  ,
  • catchings
  ,
  • clutchings
  ,
  • confiscatings
  ,
  • gainings
  ,
  • graspings
  ,
  • growings
  ,
  • obtainings
  ,
  • pursuings
  ,
  • seizings
  ,
  • snatchings
  ,
  • submitting to
  ,
  • submitting tos
  ,
  • succumbings
  ,
  • takings
  ,
  • winnings
  .
  • the act of procuring
  • getting
  .

Famous quotes with Throwing off

• For most men involved with a woman who is throwing off the traditional feminine harnesses and restrictions, her liberation has meant nothing more than greater involvement with household chores, child care, and support for the woman in her new career and academic aspirations. In other words, it has only to his pressures, responsibilities and burdens, and stretched him thinner, without providing any obvious benefits in terms of greater freedom, mobility, expressiveness, security and satisfaction, feminist rhetoric notwithstanding. What feminists describe as beneficial to the man in these changes is an ideal—a potential rather than the reality of his daily existence.

  Herb Goldberg
• One does not need to have the authentic Hittite nose to be a Jew; the term Jew rather denotes a special way of thinking and feeling. A man can very soon become a Jew without being an Israelite; often it needs only to have frequent intercourse with Jews, to read Jewish newspapers, to accustom himself to Jewish philosophy, literature and art. On the other hand, it is senseless to call an Israelite a 'Jew', though his descent is beyond question, if he has succeeded in throwing off the fetters of Ezra and Nehemiah, and if the law of Moses has no place in his brain, and contempt of others no place in his heart.

  Houston Stewart Chamberlain
• He could only conjecture what style pheromones Zula was throwing off to her peers, but to him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

  Neal Stephenson
• how could we endure to come under the dominion of a monarchy? For although others speak lightly of a form of government, as a freeman I cannot do so. We are republicanswe must persevere in throwing off the galling yoke of Mexico, and proclaim our independence of her forever.Look at Texas and see how long she withstood the power of united Mexico. The resources of Texas were not to be compared with ours, and she was much nearer to her enemy than we are.We have indeed taken the first step by electing our own governor, but another remains to be taken. I will mention it plainly and distinctly—it is annexation to the United States.Why should we shrink from incorporating ourselves with the happiest and freest nation in the world, destined soon to be the most wealthy and powerful?When we join our fortunes to hers, we shall not become subjects, but fellow citizens possessing all the rights of the people of the United StatesLook not, therefore, with jealousy upon the hardy pioneers who scale our mountains and cultivate our unoccupied plains, but rather welcome them as brothers, who come to share with us a common destiny.

  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.