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Meanings of cast-off in English

Thrown away.

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        Examples for "discarded"
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        Thousands were arrested and charged with minor offenses that were later discarded.
        The Guardian
        2
        He remembers, perhaps in great detail, how he entertained those discarded viewpoints.
        Gather, Darkness!
        3
        Frippery which would be discarded in England is often useful in India.
        The Magnificent Montez: From Courtesan to Convert
        4
        I'd discovered it four years earlier, while searching for discarded computer parts.
        Ready Player One
        5
        The batches were manufactured from chemicals discarded by pharmaceutical companies, he said.
        Radio NZ
        1
        Multiple accounts and throwaway emails: We don't allow multiple accounts per user.
        The Verge
        2
        We often use throwaway questions to ascertain the veracity of our witness.
        Man in the Middle
        3
        Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin deliver some fine one-liners with throwaway aplomb.
        The Irish Times
        4
        It's just a bratty throwaway comment, typical Milo, but it hurts me.
        The nobodies album
        5
        Silo was, undoubtedly, scheduled to become a throwaway in some underhanded scheme.
        Surrender to the will of the night
        1
        The tomato which hit Wyatt in the face was the thrown-away match.
        Mike
        Usage of cast-off in English
        1
        In two days they began to come upon bones and cast-off apparel.
        Blood Meridian
        2
        It is the very cast-off slough of a polluted and shameless press.
        Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        3
        You have brought us the cast-off finery of our ancestors, Master Seadrift.
        The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
        4
        If you look sharp, you can find the cast-off skins almost anywhere.
        The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
        5
        I can't bear to see any one parading in my cast-off elegance.
        The Curious Book of Birds
        6
        She tossed a cast-off tennis shoe at it, and the thing fled.
        Swan Song
        7
        Two more French soldiers appeared pushing a wheelbarrow filled with cast-off arms.
        Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behin...
        8
        The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul.
        Daddy-Long-Legs
        9
        He picks up the cast-off clothes and tucks them under his arm.
        Robin and ruby
        10
        Of course, this can be practised with an old or cast-off suit.
        Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and...
        11
        A cast-off is fair game to the old ones and their alphas.
        Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
        12
        Cosette turned towards the wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging.
        Les Misérables
        13
        You have a cast-off pattern of bloodstains traveling up your pant leg.
        Takeover
        14
        He had been wearing all winter a pair of cast-off women's shoes.
        Understood Betsy
        15
        No cast-off concubine luring you behind her shutters? Vlad shook his head.
        Vlad. The Last Confession
        16
        The cast-off croppers and field hands moved from place to place.
        The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
        Cast-off through the time