cast out

Verb

Meaning

expel from a community or group

throw or cast away

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

shun ban toss discard dispose banish fling cast away cast aside throw away ostracize blackball put away throw out toss out
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Antonyms

garner back call accept agree encourage
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Hypernyms

remove expel get rid of throw out kick out

Hyponyms

waste retire dump scrap trash junk

Examples

Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them. Theophan the Recluse

How will he see to cast out the mote from his brother's eye, who has the beam of anger in his own eye? John Cassian

Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ. Anne Hutchinson

I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing. Hilaire Belloc

I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me. Sergei Rachmaninoff

Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through. Rainer Maria Rilke

Close letter words and terms

cast on cast one's mind back to cast one's vote cast out nines cast out someone cast out the Devil with Beelzebub