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    CAST ASIDE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Throw or cast awayplay

    Example:

    Put away your worries

    Synonyms:

    cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

    Hypernyms (to "cast aside" is one way to...):

    get rid of; remove (dispose of)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast aside"):

    unlearn (discard something previously learnt, like an old habit)

    deep-six; give it the deep six (toss out; get rid of)

    jettison (throw away, of something encumbering)

    junk; scrap; trash (dispose of (something useless or old))

    waste (get rid of)

    dump (throw away as refuse)

    retire (dispose of (something no longer useful or needed))

    abandon (forsake, leave behind)

    liquidize; sell out; sell up (sell or get rid of all one's merchandise)

    de-access (dispose of by selling)

    close out (terminate by selling off or disposing of)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

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