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- verb transitive To
throw orcast away;reject .
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From Middle English forwerpen, from Old English forweorpan ("to throw, cast out, cast down, drive off, reject, throw away, squander"), equivalent to for- + warp. Cognate with Dutch verwerpen ("to reject"), German verwerfen ("to reject, discard, dismiss").
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