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casting away

verb as in maroon

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Accept the situation, and fight for yourself, taking your advantage where you can, and casting away scruples of punctilio.

By ridiculously casting away his protection he had thrown the detective off the track and gained three weeks.

Estelle had doubtless placed it there, casting away its paper.

The group was not inhabited, however, until the casting away of Sir George Summers upon the principal island in 1609.

It is not only in Barchester that a new man is carrying out new measures and casting away the useless rubbish of past centuries.

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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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