Antonyms for cast-off

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kast, kahst

Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst

Definition of cast-off

Origin : 1741, from verbal phrase (c.1400), from cast (v.) + off (adv.). From 1746 as a past participle adjective.

As in old : adj obsolete, outdated
As in olden : adj old

Example sentences :

And he waves his hand up toward Aunt Sophrony's cast-off palace.
Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium.
Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith

The water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.
Extract from : « Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska » by Charles Warren Stoddard

Harriette, the cast-off Harriette of last year, bobbed forward.
Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely

A snake might more easily crawl back into his cast-off skin.
Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

Most of the winter he slept in a hedge under a cast-off sail.
Extract from : « A Village of Vagabonds » by F. Berkeley Smith

I require neither your money, your food, nor your cast-off raiment.
Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling

Cast-off the topsail sheets and let everything go by the run!
Extract from : « The White Squall » by John Conroy Hutcheson

It so happened that my master had gone to Capua, to dispose of some cast-off finery.
Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock

We read with eagerness the cast-off newspapers of the first-floor gentlemen.
Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

Synonyms for cast-off

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