Antonyms for cast away

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : kast, kahst

Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst

Definition of cast away

Origin : mid-13c., "a throw, an act of throwing," from cast (v.). In early use especially of dice, hence figurative uses relating to fortune or fate. Meaning "that which is cast" is from c.1550s. Meaning "dash or shade of color" is from c.1600. The sense of "a throw" carried an idea of "the form the thing takes after it has been thrown," which led to widespread and varied meanings, such as "group of actors in a play" (1630s). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. Many of the figurative senses converged in a general meaning "sort, kind, style" (mid-17c.). A cast in the eye (early 14c.) preserves the older verbal sense of "warp, turn."

As in lost : adj missing, off-track
As in stranded : adj marooned, abandoned
As in shipwrecked : adj sunk
As in lorn : adj abandoned
As in abandoned : adj left alone, deserted
As in maroon : verb abandon
As in spend : verb give, pay out
As in fritter : verb waste away

Example sentences :

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski

"'A time to get and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away,'" he quoted.
Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

We seem to have chosen the most forsaken spot in Denboro to be cast away in.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

What had she done for him that he should cast away everything for her sake?
Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini

There are plenty of spots where she can be cast away safely and none to know it.
Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The clothes I was cast away in are below, and I'll show you them.
Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell

We went blindly into the peril, and they cast away the victory which they had won.
Extract from : « Stories From Livy » by Alfred Church

There thou must cast away all thy possessions and imperil all thy riches.
Extract from : « Mystics and Saints of Islam » by Claud Field

Thinks I—why, I can't have Tumm cast away, for what would his mother do?
Extract from : « Harbor Tales Down North » by Norman Duncan

How was it that the ship came to be cast away, I should like to know?
Extract from : « Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs » by William H. G. Kingston

Synonyms for cast away

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