throw off

This delay throws off the calculation of distance to the satellites, which makes the reported position inaccurate.

"Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio."

“When you don’t know how much contact’s going to be allowed, it does throw off that rhythm, which increases your injury risk.”

The snippets of English, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish alongside Korean threw off a local walking past who asked, "Why are there so many foreigners here?"

Its colonizing project was carried out just as other colonized peoples were throwing off their rulers.