What is "casting off"

Usage examples of "casting off".

All his efforts, the total focus of his being, was on restoring his wife to health, and that battle in turn resolved itself down to casting off the veil that covered her.

Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under presence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’.

We didn't talk much except for business while we were getting unbuttoned and rigged and casting off.

There a great jihad was launched against the Han, Moslem and Jew casting off millennia of enmity to fight against a common threat.

Krieger surged to his feet, desperately casting off the remains of the chandelier.

He worked his way through them with grim determination, blocking out what he could of the doubts and uncertainties, casting off what he could of the fear.

Raft after raft was heading downstream, casting off behind its towing-barge.

His first spell burst in the sky with rose-colored light- a titanic meadow flower budding, blooming, and casting off sparkling seed, all in the blink of an eye.