CAST ASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast aside mean? 

• CAST ASIDE (verb)
  The verb CAST ASIDE has 1 sense:

1. throw or cast away

  Familiarity information: CAST ASIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST ASIDE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw or cast away

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

Context example:

Put away your worries

Hypernyms (to "cast aside" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast aside"):

unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

waste (get rid of)

dump (throw away as refuse)

retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

abandon (forsake, leave behind)

liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

de-access (dispose of by selling)

close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

About life and the books he knew more than they, and he wondered into what nooks and crannies they had cast aside their educations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)