放り出す

• 読み: ほうりだす
• ローマ字: houridasu
• 漢字の分解: 放 (hou/ho) — release, abandon; 出 (da) — put out, emit
• 発音: /ho.ː.ɾi.da.sɯ/

意味

To throw out; to abandon; to give up on; to cast aside.

A Group 1 (godan) compound verb from 放る (horu, throw/cast) + 出す (dasu, put out). Means both literally tossing something outside and figuratively abandoning a responsibility mid-way: 仕事を放り出す (to walk out on a job), 家族を放り出す (to abandon one's family). The nuance of irresponsibility or callousness is usually implicit.

例文

1. 彼は途中でプロジェクトを放り出して会社を辞めた。
2. 子どもを放り出して出張に行くわけにもいかない。
3. 宿題を放り出して友達と遊びに行った。

使い方ガイド

場面: work, responsibility, daily life, narrative

トーン: slightly negative

起源と歴史

Compound of 放る (to throw/fling) + 出す (to put out). The image of physically flinging something away from oneself captures the abruptness and finality of the figurative sense of abandonment. 放る itself is a colloquial form of 放つ (to release).

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal