throw away vs de-access

de-access vs throw away

throw away and de-access both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
throw away	No	No	Yes	No
de-access	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, de-access is a hyponym of throw away; that is, de-access is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than throw away:

throw away: throw or cast away
de-access: dispose of an item in a collection by selling it off

Other hyponyms of throw away include unlearn, deep-six, give it the deep six, jettison, junk, scrap, trash, waste, dump, retire, abandon, liquidize, sell out, sell up, close out.

throw away (verb)	de-access (verb)
to remove	dispose of an item in a collection by selling it off
throw or cast away

Difference between throw away and de-access

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