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Cast off

verb

Get rid of. Synonyms: cast, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off. "Shed your clothes"

Make the last row of stitches when knitting.

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"Cast off" Quotes from Famous Books

... Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him; Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off forever." ...

— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman

... the Mona, cast off her stern mooring, got in the anchor, and the pull on that brought us to the stone steps of the landing-stage. While I made the seats ready for the voyagers and handed them in, Yeo took two reefs in the lug-sail (an act ...

— Old Junk • H. M. Tomlinson

... But his hopeful temperament cast off troubles readily. "We can't do anything more than just wait, anyhow; and I suppose that our friend here"—he motioned to the Aleut boy—"will see that we get our share of ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... ne'er-do-weel, the extravagant one, who drank little and did the listening. Dudley had cast off altogether the gravity and taciturnity which sometimes got him looked upon as a bit of a prig, and chatted and told his friend stories, with a tone and manner of irresponsible gayety ...

— The Wharf by the Docks - A Novel • Florence Warden

... universal Nature, beyond what the experience itself bears witness of; or how, in the process of interpreting in general language the testimony of experience, the limitations of the testimony itself can be cast off. ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

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