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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.
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