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CAST OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get rid of
Example:
shed your clothes
Synonyms:
cast; cast off; drop; shake off; shed; throw; throw away; throw off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cast off" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast off"):
exuviate; molt; moult; shed; slough (cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers)
abscise (shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue)
exfoliate (cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters)
autotomise; autotomize (cause a body part to undergo autotomy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make the last row of stitches when knitting
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "cast off" is one way to...):
run up; sew; sew together; stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)
Domain category:
handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)
Context examples:
Then he cast off his breast-plate, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Alleyne followed his example.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And still she pleaded with me not to cast off the masts.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I cast off the tackles and leaped after her.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She was an apt pupil, and soon learned to keep the course, to luff in the puffs and to cast off the sheet in an emergency.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Having cast off the lashings, I hoisted first on the forward tackle, then on the aft, till the boat cleared the rail, when I lowered away, one tackle and then the other, for a couple of feet, till it hung snugly, above the water, against the schooner’s side.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
