toss away vs sell up

sell up vs toss away

toss away and sell up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
toss away	No	No	Yes	No
sell up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, sell up is a hyponym of toss away; that is, sell up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than toss away:

toss away: throw or cast away
sell up: sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

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

toss away (verb)	sell up (verb)
throw or cast away	sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Difference between toss away and sell up

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