throw off
verb- To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer. · I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
- To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew. · The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.
- Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- To fling away.
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- To split off.
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- To deduct from a price in order to compensate for problems.
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Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies of this time of liberty and relaxation.
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