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vb. 1 To discard. 2 (context nautical English) To abandon or maroon.
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Cast Away is a 2000 American epic survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The film depicts a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his Robinsonade attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance. This was the first film to be produced by Hanks' production company under its new aegis Playtone (formerly Clavius Base).
Cast Away is the second album by symphonic power metal band Visions Of Atlantis, and was released in 2004.
Usage examples of "cast away".
We must cast away these riches, which are a temptation to princes.
I was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I encountered some severe storms.
Then he 'wrung his hands and cast away his chain [of office] from his neck and his rings from his fingers'.
If thou cast away one cross, without doubt thou shalt find another and perchance a heavier.
It is good for me, Lord, that I had been in trouble, that I may learn Thy statutes,(4) and may cast away all pride of heart and presumption.
Therefore thou oughtest to cast away all things which hinder grace, if thou longest to receive the inpouring thereof.
To cast away all these things is not lawful, because nature must be sustained, but to require superfluities and things which merely minister delight, the holy law forbiddeth.
I replied, since that you feel already so good an effect of my medicament, I advise you to cast away all your Plaisters, onely keep the wound clean, and in a moderate temper 'twixt heat and cold.
But would have cast away her silken bobbins, And fled to join him, mad for love as Helen!
And this other was situated more than twelve hundred leagues from Sneffels, from that drear country of Iceland cast away on the confines of the earth.
Now we were paddling up a smaller river than the one on the banks of which I had been cast away, and were no longer in the midst of marshes.
What am I without it, save a dry tree, a useless branch, worthy to be cast away!
Happy is he who can cast away every cause of distraction and bring himself to the one purpose of holy compunction.
I am willing to cast away the work of a hundred generations if we are wrong.
Around us, after awhile, we heard the furtive slithering and scampering of small animals that devoured the comestibles we had cast away.