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cast away (third-person singular simple present casts away, present participle casting away, simple past and past participle cast away)
- To discard.
- She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
- (nautical) To abandon or maroon.
- The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.
- (computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180:If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.
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