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Definition of Cast aside
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 aside
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to discard ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cast Aside
Literary usage of Cast aside
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"... AND cast aside. His lordship was busy with some letters, and did not look up
for a minute or two, although he knew that I was there. ..."
2. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... to call up Leontinoi again from its ruins, was a call which it would need no
small measure of experience and of hardihood to venture to cast aside. ..."
3. Plays of the Present by John Bouvé Clapp, Edwin Francis Edgett (1902)
""Partners for Life" attained some popularity at the outset of its career, but it
was soon cast aside and used only for occasional revivals on the British ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"And when those fables strange our hirelings teach, I saw by genuine learning cast
aside, Even like Linnaeus kneeling on the sod, For faith from falsehood ..."
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