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casts away

verb as in maroon

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Travelers tell us that the gain is great when a tribe casts away its idols and embraces Islam.

It is not, indeed, in such circumstances alone that man casts away opportunities.

As Mrs. Browning says, He who tears his heart in twain, and casts away the baser part, is richer for his loss.

O my Lords, what seaman casts away his card because it has four-and-twenty points of the compass?

He casts away Cain and makes Abel an angel, and the "first of all the saints."

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On this page you'll find 240 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cast away, such as: deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, and eliminated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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