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Definition of Cast away
1. Verb. Throw or cast away. "Put away your worries"
Specialized synonyms: Unlearn, Deep-six, Give It The Deep Six, Jettison, Junk, Scrap, Trash, Waste, Dump, Retire, Abandon, Liquidize, Sell Out, Sell Up, De-access, Close Out
Generic synonyms: Get Rid Of, Remove
Derivative terms: Discard, Discard, Disposal, Disposition, Fling
Definition of Cast away
1. Verb. To discard. ¹
2. Verb. (context: nautical) To abandon or maroon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cast Away
Literary usage of Cast away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... Then came hot JULY, boiling like to fire, That all his garments he had cast
away ; Upon a lion raging yet with ire The ..."
2. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"Thus she caused him to be cast away. (Courtezans will bestow care on a daughter,
but not on a son, for it is through a daughter that their line of business ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"A time to cast away Jer. 22:19. burial of an ass, drawn and casi forth 36:23.and cast
... .-Imi a certain woman cosí 15:17. that he cast away the jawbone ..."
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