投げ出す
なげだす · nagedasu · JLPT N1 · verb-godan
to abandon
🗑️ 投げ (throw) + 出す (put out) = throw it out, so you leave it behind
Literally 'throw out' (投げ = throw, 出す = put out). Its figurative sense of abandoning a task or person comes from discarding something you were holding.
投 — hand radical 扌 + weapon 殳
Originally a pictograph of a hand (扌) throwing or hurling a weapon or staff (殳). The core meaning 'to throw, cast, hurl' extended over time to figurative senses like 'to invest,' 'to deliver,' or 'to throw oneself into' something.
出 — foot 止 emerging from enclosure 凵
出 is a pictograph showing a foot or plant stepping out of a hollow or enclosure, depicting the act of going forth. The original sense of 'coming out' or 'emerging' has remained stable since oracle bone script. It now broadly means 'to exit, go out, or produce.'