Definition
To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
In Context
- "I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses."
- ""Then," said the tinker, "maybe the thing for us to do would be to go by queer ways, by bohereens and the like of that, and for us to get of the straight road to Rathmoon, the way that no-one will find us except the tinkers, for we can't throw off them.""
- ""Well," he said as they reached the livery, "we could go north or throw them off our trail. That would add a day to our trip, though.""
- "The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results."
- "“Varying the speeds of your pitches to throw off the timing of the hitter is much more important than it used to be,” Yankees righthander David Cone says."
- "Too much activity one day can throw off my blood sugar as much as if I am not active the next."