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throw out

Separable

Get rid of something you no longer want

I threw out all my old school books.

Force someone to leave a place

The bar threw him out at midnight.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

The particle: out

This verb belongs to the group ‘leaving or removing’.

Others in the group: move out, cross out.