"chuck away" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: chucks away [present, singular, third-person], chucking away [participle, present], chucked away [participle, past], chucked away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chuck away (third-person singular simple present chucks away, present participle chucking away, simple past and past participle chucked away)
  1. (transitive, informal) To discard, or throw away. Tags: informal, transitive Synonyms: chuck out

Inflected forms

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