Synonyms for cast off
cast off

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1. cast off

   Abandon is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things of any kind; abdicate and resign apply to office, authority, or power; cede to territorial possessions; surrender especially to military force, and more generally to any demand, claim, passion, etc. Quit carries an idea of suddenness or abruptness not necessarily implied in abandon, and may not have the same suggestion of finality. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. A cowardly officer deserts his ship; the helpless passengers abandon it. We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. Relinquish commonly implies reluctance; the fainting hand relinquishes its grasp; the creditor relinquishes his claim. Abandon implies previous association with responsibility for or control of; forsake implies previous association with inclination or attachment, real or assumed; a man may abandon or forsake house or friends; he abandons an enterprise; forsakes God. Abandon is applied to both good and evil action; a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles. Forsake, like abandon, may be used either in the favorable or unfavorable sense; desert is always unfavorable, involving a breach of duty, except when used of mere localities; as, "the Deserted Village." While a monarch abdicates, a president or other elected or appointed officer resigns. It was held that James II. abdicated his throne by deserting it.

   Synonyms:
   abandon, abdicate, abjure, cease, cede, depart from, desert, discontinue, forego, forsake, forswear, give up, leave, quit, recant, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, retract, surrender, vacate, withdraw from

   Antonyms:
   adopt, advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support, undertake, uphold, vindicate

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1. cast-off(a), discarded, throwaway(a), thrown-away(a)verb

   thrown away

   "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

   Antonyms:
   wanted, cast on

2. shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, dropverb

   get rid of

   "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"

   Synonyms:
   roam, project, flip, overleap, spue, redact, strike down, fuddle, drift, put down, draw, send away, have, hold, fling, hurl, slough, mold, deteriorate, cast, rove, put, bedevil, roll, pour forth, befuddle, spend, omit, throw away, frame, moult, dangle, confound, vomit up, chuck out, mould, throw off, toss, throw up, expend, contrive, retch, purge, give, discombobulate, tramp, toss away, drip, disgorge, cat, cut down, dribble, thrust, overlook, stray, devolve, leave out, miss, shake, exuviate, bewilder, shed, fox, cast away, sink, shake off, chuck, pretermit, make, range, molt, vagabond, swan, unload, drop off, set down, fell, knock off, toss out, flatten, ramble, spill, neglect, cast aside, throw, regurgitate, wander, vomit, throw out, hurtle, put away, escape from, spew, honk, dismiss, dispose, cast out, regorge, drop, drop down, switch, discharge, upchuck, send packing, be sick, swing, discard, barf, confuse, sick, couch, bemuse, degenerate, puke

   Antonyms:
   wanted, cast on

3. cast offverb

   make the last row of stitches when knitting

   Synonyms:
   drop, cast, throw, throw away, shed, throw off, shake off

   Antonyms:
   wanted, cast on

Matched Categories

1. • Handicraft
   • Remove
   • Stitch

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1. cast off

   Synonyms:
   reject, discard, abandon, forsake, renounce, lay aside, cast by, cast away, throw away, throw by, get rid of

2. cast off

   Synonyms:
   (Naut.) loose, untie, let go, let slip

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1. cast off

   Synonyms:
   discard, reject, slough

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1. Nelson Mandela:

   For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

2. Alexis Arquette:

   I'd like companies to start making sure that they hire more trans people, the way it is right now, a lot of trans women are really kind of cast off to the side.

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.