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cast out

 
Idioms: cast out

Forcibly drive out, expel, as in We have to cast out these old-fashioned ideas and methods. [Late 1200s]


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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: expel from a community or group
  Synonyms: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, blackball

Meaning #2: throw or cast away
  Synonyms: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, throw away, cast away, put away


 
 

 

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