THROWOFF

throw off

Verb

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


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