cast away

present singular third person casts away · participle present casting away

1. transitiveTo discard.

   She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.

   Synonyms: at discard

2. transitivenauticalTo abandon or maroon.

   The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.

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   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.

   1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521

3. transitivecomputingTo eliminate by means of a cast operation.

   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.

   1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180