"throw off the trail" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-throw off the trail.ogg Forms: throws off the trail [present, singular, third-person], throwing off the trail [participle, present], threw off the trail [past], thrown off the trail [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|throw<,,threw,thrown> off the trail}} throw off the trail (third-person singular simple present throws off the trail, present participle throwing off the trail, simple past threw off the trail, past participle thrown off the trail)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To misguide. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (To misguide): despistar (Catalan), сбить со сле́да (sbitʹ so sléda) [perfective] (Russian), taflu oddi ar y trywydd (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "To misguide",
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