CAST OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast out mean? 

• CAST OUT (verb)
  The verb CAST OUT has 2 senses:

1. expel from a community or group

2. throw or cast away

  Familiarity information: CAST OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel from a community or group

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize; shun

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

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

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 out" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

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

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 could stand that, Mr. Musgrave, but not to be cast out before all the folk that I know so well.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Cæsar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon,” she answered gravely, “and the first I installed was Dr. Jordan.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings always do unless cast out at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The strong winds cast out by the most massive stars, called O-type stars, can generate these expanding puffs, as can their explosive deaths as supernovas.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

She appealed to everybody and to everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As if she were a part of the refuse it had cast out, and left to corruption and decay, the girl we had followed strayed down to the river's brink, and stood in the midst of this night-picture, lonely and still, looking at the water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)