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cast ashore

verb as in maroon

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Then he drifted for days, until finally he was cast ashore on Calypso’s island, where he had to stay for many years.

At last, on the rocky shingle at the edge of the sea, they found two logs, sea-tossed, that had floated there on the tides and been cast ashore.

Amid a Democratic electoral wave that swept through New York and beyond on Tuesday, one incumbent Democrat in a restive corner of residential Queens found herself cast ashore.

He said boats were cast ashore, water, sewer and power were knocked out, and "I don't think I saw one trailer park where almost everything wasn't overturned."

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Far rather would I meet Dutchman or Frenchman in fair fight than be cast ashore on the devil-haunted coast of Purbeck.

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

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