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Definition of Cast off
1. Verb. Get rid of. "Shed your clothes"
Specialized synonyms: Exuviate, Molt, Moult, Shed, Slough, Abscise, Exfoliate, Autotomise, Autotomize
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
2. Verb. Make the last row of stitches when knitting.
Generic synonyms: Run Up, Sew, Sew Together, Stitch
Antonyms: Cast On
Definition of Cast off
1. Verb. (transitive) To discard or reject something. ¹
2. Verb. (ambitransitive nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cast Off
Literary usage of Cast off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"Will euch a section of bone be able to sustain itself and the inclosed teeth ?
will new teeth replace the old ones when cast off? will this fragment of jaw ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Come, then, let us cast off fooling, and put by ease and rest, ... Ah ! come,
cast off all fooling, for this, at least, we know : That the Dawn and the Day ..."
3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"I take it, that Donne was already a saint potentially, and, at this point, finally
cast off the impediments which had bound him to the world and covered his ..."
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