"cast adrift" meaning in English

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      "form": "casts adrift",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "casting adrift",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cast adrift",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "cast adrift",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We cast adrift the burning sloop to await its fate.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To abandon a ship at sea"
      ],
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          "abandon"
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        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
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          "sea",
          "sea"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To abandon a ship at sea"
      ],
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          "text": "Captain Bligh and some loyal crewmen were cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them"
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          "place",
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          "boat",
          "boat"
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        [
          "raft",
          "raft"
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        [
          "leave",
          "leave"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them"
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "cast adrift"
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      "form": "casts adrift",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "casting adrift",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "cast adrift",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "cast adrift",
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          "ship",
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          "sea",
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        "(transitive) To abandon a ship at sea"
      ],
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          "raft",
          "raft"
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        "(transitive) To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them"
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