verb
1. expel from a community or group
• Derivationally related forms: ↑blackball (for: ↑blackball), ↑ostracism (for: ↑ostracise), ↑ostracism (for: ↑ostracize), ↑banishment (for: ↑banish)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
2. throw or cast away
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Put away your worries
• Syn:
↑discard, ↑fling, ↑toss, ↑toss out, ↑toss away, ↑chuck out, ↑cast aside, ↑dispose, ↑throw out, ↑throw away, ↑cast away, ↑put away
• Derivationally related forms: ↑disposition (for: ↑dispose), ↑disposal (for: ↑dispose), ↑fling (for: ↑fling), ↑discard (for: ↑discard)
• Hypernyms: ↑get rid of, ↑remove
• Hyponyms:
↑unlearn, ↑deep-six, ↑give it the deep six, ↑jettison, ↑trash, ↑junk, ↑scrap, ↑waste, ↑dump, ↑retire, ↑abandon, ↑sell out, ↑sell up, ↑liquidize, ↑de-access, ↑close out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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transitive verb chiefly Scotland : to fall out : quarrel
he cast out with his brother
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cast out (Scot)
To quarrel
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Main Entry: ↑cast
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ˌcast ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they cast out he/she/it casts out present participle casting out past tense cast out past participle cast out] literary phrasal verb
to force someone or something to leave a place
Thesaurus: to force someone to leave a placesynonym
Main entry: cast
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cast out [phrasal verb]
cast out (someone or something) or cast (someone or something) out : to force (someone or something) to go away
He was cast out of [=expelled from] the tribe.
They tried to cast out the spirits from the haunted house.
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Main Entry: ↑cast
Useful english dictionary. 2012.