Cast Away

Definition: Cast Away

Cast Away

Verb

1. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cast Away

Abrogation

Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack.

Cheerfulness

Verb: be cheerful; Adjective: have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up.

Failure

Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked.

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Waste

Cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander.

Crosswords: Cast Away

A time to cast away stones ("Turn Turn Turn"; performing artist: The Byrds)

Cast Away (2000)

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Books

• A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captive and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nu Who Were Cast Away in the American Ship Mentor the Pelew islands (reference)

• Cast away at the Pole (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Cast Away (reference)

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In requiring the proletariat to carry out such a system, and thereby to march straightway into the social New Jerusalem, it but requires in reality, that the proletariat should remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoisie. (reference)

Before we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for self-preservation we must be certain that our temple is built, not upon shifting sands or quagmires, but upon the rock. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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I was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I encountered some severe storms.

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Expressions using "cast away": be cast away ♦ cast away care ♦ To cast away. Additional references.

Albanian

braktis (cast off, chuck, desert, drop out, fall away, forsake, jilt, lay down, let go, relinquish, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпилявам (blow about, consume, disperse, fool away, potter away, squander, throw about), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), претърпявам корабокрушение (shipwreck, wreck), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�脫 (break away from, freeoneself from, to break away, to break out, to get rid of), �"�棄 (abandon, discard), �'� (throw). (various references)

Czech

ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, miscarry, shipwreck, wreck), zavrhnout (cast off, discard, proscribe, reject, reprobate, repudiate, throw over), odvrhnout (cast off). (various references)

French

rejeter (cast aside). (various references)

German

wegwerfen (discard, dump, jettison, pitch out, scrap, throw away, throw out, throwaway, to throw away, toss away, toss out, trash). (various references)

Greek 

ναυαγώ (abort, founder, sink). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שליך (cast, expel, pitch, shed, throw), ל�"חות (defer, dismiss, hold off, postpone, repel, set aside, suspend). (various references)

Hungarian

elherdál (dissipate, squander, to blue, to cast away, to dissipate, to fritter away, to frivol away, to piss away, to squander). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突っ�"�す (to look upon with detachment, to thrust or cast away), 投�'る (to cast away, to throw), 切捨てる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), 切り捨てる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�'る (to cast away, to throw), きりすてる (to cast away, to cut down, to discard, to omit, to slay, to truncate), つっぱなす (to look upon with detachment, to thrust or cast away). (various references)

Manx

mooidjeen marrey. (various references)

Pig Latin

astcay awayay

Romanian

se descotorosi de (shake off), scãpa de (escape, get rid of, work off), risipi (broadcast, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, chuck away, consume, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, spill, throw away, waste), irosi (consume, dissipate, fiddle, idle, muddle away, spend, squander, waste), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, supplant, take away, throw by). (various references)

Russian 

выбрасывать (ejaculate, eject, emit, expel, scrapping, throw away, throw out, toss out, turf out), отбрасывать (cast aside, cast out, reject, throw aside, toss aside). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odbaciti (abandon, cast aside, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away, toss off). (various references)

Spanish

desechar (cast aside, discard, discount, dismiss, lay aside, put aside, put away, reject, scrap, shuck off, throw aside, throw away, throw out, throwaway), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

kasta bort (discard, fling away, jettison, scrap, throw away, throw to the dogs). (various references)

Turkish

fırlatmak (aim, blast off, bung, cast, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk), deniz kazası geçirmek, boşa harcamak (chuck away, dissipate, fling away, footle, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, idle, idle away, lavish, misapply, misspend, pass away, pour down the drain, scatter, squander, squander away, throw away, throw to the dogs, trifle away, waste), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), çarçur etmek (blow, blue, dissipate, pour down the drain, squander, trifle away, waste), ıssız adada bırakmak (maroon). (various references)

Ukrainian

відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), викидати (abort, belch, cast up, detrude, eject, obtrude, scrap, throw out). (various references)

abicere, abiciam, abiciamus, abicias, abiciat, abicient, abicientes, abiciet, abicietur, abicio, abicis, abicit, abicite, abicitis, abicitur, abiecerat, abiecerint, abiecerunt, abieci, abiecisset, abiecisti, abiecit, abiecta, abiectae, abiectam, abiecti, abiectum, abiectus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: castaway.

-3 letters: satay.

-4 letters: acta, acts, away, casa, cast, cats, caws, cays, cyst, scat, staw, stay, swat, sway, taws, twas, wast, wats, ways, yaws.

-5 letters: aas, act, awa, ays, cat, caw, cay, sac, sat, saw, say, sty, tas, taw, twa, was, wat, way, yaw.

+1 letter: castaways.