Complete Definition of "throw off"

English
Verb
throw off
#idiom To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
#:I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
#idiom To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
#:The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.

fr:throw off

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