CAST AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast away mean? 

• CAST AWAY (verb)
  The verb CAST AWAY has 1 sense:

1. throw or cast away

  Familiarity information: CAST AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

Context example:

Put away your worries

Hypernyms (to "cast away" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast away"):

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

waste (get rid of)

dump (throw away as refuse)

retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

de-access (dispose of by selling)

close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I doubt if I could have felt much stranger if the maps had been real foreign countries, and I cast away in the middle of them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The reader suddenly sat up, cast away the paper, displaying a flushed countenance, and with a funny mixture of solemnity and excitement replied in a loud voice, "Your sister."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To be cast away on an island had not entered into my calculations, so we were without a kettle or cooking utensils of any sort; but I made shift with the tin used for bailing the boat, and later, as we consumed our supply of canned goods, we accumulated quite an imposing array of cooking vessels.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You won't have anything else here. and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was not angry with them; I was more afraid of them, as if I were cast away among creatures with whom I had no community of nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)