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casting (off)verbpresent participle of cast (off) to get rid of as useless or unwantedonce she became rich and didn't need them anymore, she cast off all her old friends like so much junk cashiering, chucking, deep-sixing, discarding, ditching, dumping, eighty-sixing(or 86ing), exorcising(also exorcizing), flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, laying by, losing, pitching, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing (off)also sluffing (off), throwing away, throwing out, tossing, unloading abandoning, abdicating, deserting, forsakingdismissing, kicking outabolishing, annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, liquidating, removing, rooting (out), stamping (out), wiping out disposing of, setting aside adopting, embracing, taking onemploying, using, utilizingholding, holding back, keeping, retaining |