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Cast Aside

Definition: Cast Aside

Cast Aside

Verb

1. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Cast Aside

DomainDefinition

Literature

Cast Aside (To). To reject as worthless. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms: Cast Aside

Synonyms: cast away (v), cast out (v), chuck out (v), discard (v), dispose (v), fling (v), put away (v), throw away (v), throw out (v), toss (v), toss away (v), toss out (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cast Aside

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abrogation

Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack.

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

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Crosswords: Cast Aside

English words defined with "cast aside": Daff, discardjilt. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cast Aside

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Just cast aside (Can't let go; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

I cast aside my pride (I'll Never Fall In Love Again; performing artist: Tom Jones)

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Familiar Quotations: Cast Aside

AuthorQuotation

Homer

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

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Speeches: Cast Aside

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George W. Bush

2001-2005Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence?

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Expression: Cast Aside

Expression using "cast aside": To cast aside. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Cast Aside

Language Translations for "cast aside"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏هجر (break away, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏ترك (break, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отървавам се (dump, save one's neck), изхвърлям (bounce, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odložit (abort, adjourn, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), hodit za hlavu. (various references)

   

French

  

se défaire de, rejeter (cast away), mettre de côté, abandonner. (various references)

   

German

  

fallen lassen (drop, dump down, send down, shed, slip), ausrangieren (discard, disuse, eraserd, scrap, throw out, to eraserd, to scrap), ablegen (cast off, discard, file, give up, lay aside, lay away, lay down, outgrow, pass, pull away, put aside, put down, put off, remove, renounce, shed, shove off, shuffle off, store, swear, throw off, to discard, ungird, unlearn). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πετώ κάτι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מושלך (discarded, thrown away), ל טוש (abandon, brandish, desert, forsake, lay aside, leave, let, quit, relinquish, renounce). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félretesz (allocate, discard, lay aside, lay by, move away, pigeon-hole, put aside, put off, set apart, set aside, set by, to appropriate, to lay aside, to lay by, to lay sg by, to lay up, to pigeonhole, to put down, to put off, to put sg by, to put sg to one side, to reserve, to separate, to set by, to set sg by, to shelve, to throw off). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

捨てる  (to cast aside, to resign, to throw away), 捨てる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すてる (to abandon, to cast aside, to resign, to throw away). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astcay asideay

   

Romanian

  

se lepãda de (cast off, depart from, lay aside), se debarasa de (bargain away, clear off, escape, fall out of, forsake, leave work, make away with), renunţa la (abandon, abdicate, abnegate, back down, chuck up, declare off, deny, disclaim, doff, drop, forgo, forsake, give over, lay down, part with, remise, renounce, resign, sacrifice, shunt, sink, spare, surrender, throw up, yield up), deconsidera, arunca (bowl, cast, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отвергать (disallow, discard, discarding, jettison, negate, negative, override, overrule, rebut, refuse, refuse to admit, reject, rejecting, repel, repudiate, repulse, spurn, turn down, vote down). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odbiti (counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean), odbaciti (abandon, cast away, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away, toss off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desechar (cast away, discard, discount, dismiss, lay aside, put aside, put away, reject, scrap, shuck off, throw aside, throw away, throw out, throwaway). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cast Aside

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

abicere, abicis, abicit, abicite, abicitis, abicitur, abico. (various references)

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Anagrams: Cast Aside

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-s-s-t"

-1 letter: diastase.

-2 letters: acedias, ascites, casitas, dicasts, discase, disseat, dissect, ectasis, stadias.

-3 letters: acedia, asdics, asides, cadets, casita, cassia, castes, cestas, daises, dassie, deists, desist, dicast, edicts, sadist, saices, siesta, stades, stadia, steads, tassie, tsades, tsadis.

-4 letters: aceta, acids, acted, adits, aecia, aides, asdic, aside, assai, assed, asset, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, casas, cased, cases.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: associated.

 

+3 letters: disassociate, galactosides, unassociated.

 

+4 letters: anecdotalisms, anecdotalists, audiocassette, deescalations, disassociated, disassociates, galactosidase, nonassociated, parasiticides, sacerdotalism, sacerdotalist, tradescantias.

 

+5 letters: accidentalness, antidesiccants, audiocassettes, compassionated, disarticulates, dogmaticalness, galactosidases, sacerdotalisms, sacerdotalists, trisaccharides, ultradistances.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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