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"text": "She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage."
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"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "afskiuban",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "𐌰𐍆𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌽"
},
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"roman": "izgonjátʹ",
"sense": "discard",
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"word": "изгоня́ть"
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"text": "The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat."
},
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"ref": "1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521",
"text": "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.",
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"To abandon or maroon."
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"(nautical) To abandon or maroon."
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"text": "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.",
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"To eliminate by means of a cast operation."
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"(computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation."
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"text": "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.",
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"(nautical) To abandon or maroon."
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"To eliminate by means of a cast operation."
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"(computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation."
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"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "afskiuban",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "𐌰𐍆𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "wyrzucać"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izgonjátʹ",
"sense": "discard",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "изгоня́ть"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izgnátʹ",
"sense": "discard",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "изгна́ть"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "naufragar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "desechar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "discard",
"word": "tirar"
}
],
"word": "cast away"
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