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A yacht was wrecked — no hint of hope for me?
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castaway
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A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck , some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island , either to evade captors or the world in general. A person may also be left ashore as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix. 27.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island" [syn: shipwrecked ] cast off as valueless [syn: castaway(a) , rejected ] n. a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast , pariah ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. 2 shipwrecked. n. 1 (context nautical English) A shipwrecked sailor. 2 A discarded person or thing. 3 An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
Usage examples of castaway.
He heard shouts and was dimly aware of Deadeye rushing to help the sailors and castaways over the rail.
Perhaps, after all the document was already several months or several years old, and it was possible in this case, either that the castaway had been enabled to return to his country, or that he had died of misery.
By Fijian custom the lives of all castaways were forfeit, but the pretence to supernatural powers would have saved men full of the religious rites of their Melanesian home, and would have assured them a hearing.
Hating the planet, the crippled ship that had brought him here, and the fins who were his fellow castaways, he drifted into a poignantly satisfying rehearsal of the scathing retorts he should have said to Keepiru.
Our Lord Himself also was meditating terror in the garden of Gethsemane, and Paul both guilt and terror when he imagined himself both an apostate preacher and a castaway soul.
After walking for twenty minutes, the four castaways were suddenly brought to a standstill by the sight of foaming billows close to their feet.
Chapter 11 The Mooncalf Pastures So we two poor terrestrial castaways, lost in that wild-growing moon jungle, crawled in terror before the sounds that had come upon us.
If castaways had landed on the island, they could not have yet quitted the shore, and it was not in the woods that the survivors of the supposed shipwreck should be sought.
The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
The castaways, although their strength was nearly exhausted, still marched courageously forward, hoping every moment to meet with a sudden angle which would set them in the first direction.
The castaways could expect nothing but from themselves and from that Providence which never abandons those whose faith is sincere.
The 5th of April, which was Wednesday, was twelve days from the time when the wind threw the castaways on this shore.
The settlers in Lincoln Island were no longer the miserable castaways thrown on the islet.
In fact, the castaways would have been always able to procure fire, in some mode or other, but no human power could supply another grain of corn, if unfortunately this should be lost!
Spilett, do you not think it very extraordinary that, if any castaways have landed on the island, they have not yet shown themselves near Granite House?