cast-off

Speech parts

1. cast-off - Noun

2. cast-off - Adjective

3. cast-off - Verb

4. cast-off - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

cast off

Synonyms

cast drop throw shed throw away throwaway shake off discarded thrown-away chuck aboriginal slough castaway used second

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Antonyms

cast on new support modern court wanted

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Hypernyms

take remove withdraw stitch sew run up

Hyponyms

slough moult shed molt exfoliate exuviate

Examples

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind . . . cast-off and everyday clothing. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Have we not the right to our own views, and own interpretations, and own creeds, and own Truths equal to those that proceeded us? Must we forever wear the cast-off garments of past ages? Benjamin Fish Austin

More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent. Latin Proverb

he shed his image as a pushy boss Source: Internet

shed your clothes Source: Internet

wearing someone's cast-off clothes Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cast-iron plant cast-iron stomach cast-netter cast-off newspaper cast-off paper cast-off skin