casts away

as inmaroon
as inspend
as infritter

Synonyms for casts away

verb abandon

Antonyms for casts away

Word Origin & History

mid-13c., "a throw, an act of throwing," from cast (v.). In early use especially of dice, hence figurative uses relating to fortune or fate. Meaning "that which is cast" is from c.1550s. Meaning "dash or shade of color" is from c.1600. The sense of "a throw" carried an idea of "the form the thing takes after it has been thrown," which led to widespread and varied meanings, such as "group of actors in a play" (1630s). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. Many of the figurative senses converged in a general meaning "sort, kind, style" (mid-17c.). A cast in the eye (early 14c.) preserves the older verbal sense of "warp, turn."

Example Sentences for casts away

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

Truth she keeps coining in her mints, such truth As she can tolerate; and every die Except her own she breaks and casts away.

So, when I stays off my knees awhile an' casts away faith in de unseen, seem dat my horse-sense hit gives me trouble.

Brnnhilde casts away shield, spear, and helmet, and sinking down at Wotan's feet looks up to him with affectionate anxiety.

The eternal heavens change beneath His eye, like a garment which a man puts on his body and then casts away from him.

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