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Verb | 1. | ![]() chuck out,discard,cast away,throw away,toss away,toss out,put away,throw out,cast out,dispose,fling,toss unlearn - discard something previously learnt, like an old habit deep-six,give it the deep six - toss out; get rid of; "deep-six these old souvenirs!" jettison - throw away, of something encumbering junk,scrap,trash - dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" waste - get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" get rid of,remove - dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood" dump - throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" retire - dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat" abandon - forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" de-access - dispose of by selling; "the museum sold off its collection of French impressionists to raise money"; "the publishing house sold off one of its popular magazines" close out - terminate by selling off or disposing of; "He closed out his line of sports cars" |
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w>cast aside
vt sep cares, prejudices, inhibitions, habits →ablegen;old clothes etc →ausrangieren;person →fallen lassen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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Were the veil butcast aside, they might speak freely of it, but not till then.
Upon it was some desolate flotsamcast aside by the room's marooned when a lucky sail had borne them to a fresh port--a trifling vase or two, pictures of actresses, a medicine bottle, some stray cards out of a deck.
Not that in this I imitated the sceptics who doubt only that they may doubt, and seek nothing beyond uncertainty itself; for, on the contrary, my design was singly to find ground of assurance, andcast aside the loose earth and sand, that I might reach the rock or the clay.
Therefore, if Blucher ever sees the inside of a mosque, he will have tocast aside his humanity and go in his natural character.
I saw him seize Thurid by the shoulder, wheeling him around in my direction as he pointed to where I was now plainly visible, for the moment that I knew I had been perceived Icast aside every attempt at stealth and broke into a mad race for the flier.
Cloth yard shafts began to hurtle through the air, and Robin and his mencast aside their cloaks and sprang forward crying:
"Think not, John Carter, that you may so lightlycast aside the love of Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang.
The Scarecrow, in shifting his seat, saw upon the cushions the pepper-box which Tip hadcast aside, and began to examine it.
I showed him the human wreckscast aside by the industrial machine, and he listened to their life stories.
As hecast aside his mask, composed of such party-coloured leaves, as he had hurriedly collected, his countenance appeared in all the gravity, the dignity, and, it may be added, in the terror of his profession.
Ali suddenlycast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skilfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way.
Forgetful of everything other than that a weak and defenseless man was being brutally murdered before her eyes, the girlcast aside discretion and, rushing to Smith-Oldwick's assistance, seized the uplifted sword arm of the shrieking creature upon the prostrate Englishman.
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