cast aside

Verb

Meaning

throw or cast away

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

toss discard dispose fling cast away throw away cast out put away throw out toss out chuck out toss away chuck shun forsaking

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Antonyms

back like address consider accept agree

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Hypernyms

remove get rid of

Hyponyms

waste retire dump scrap trash junk

Examples

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. Warren E. Burger

We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody. Ted Cruz

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. Mary Oliver

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. Alan Moore

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else. Tim Cook

It is not easy suddenly to cast aside a fancy long indulged in. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cast around for something cast as cast ashore cast aside from cast aspersion cast aspersions