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casts (off)verbpresent tense third-person singular 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 cashiers, chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, lays by, loses, pitches, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off)also sluffs (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out disposes of, sets aside adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains |