cast sb/sth out
literary— phrasal verb with cast uk/kɑːst/us/kæst/verb cast, cast
to get rid of someone or something, especially forcefully:
Cast out by his family, he was forced to fend for himself.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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