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View synonyms for cast-off
cast-off
adjective
- prenominal thrown away; abandoned
cast-off shoes
noun
- a person or thing that has been discarded or abandoned
- printing an estimate of the amount of space that a piece of copy will occupy when printed in a particular size and style of type
verb
- to remove (mooring lines) that hold (a vessel) to a dock
- to knot (a row of stitches, esp the final row) in finishing off knitted or woven material
- printing to estimate the amount of space that will be taken up by (a book, piece of copy, etc) when it is printed in a particular size and style of type
- intr (in Scottish country dancing) to perform a progressive movement during which each partner of a couple dances separately behind one line of the set and then reunites with the other in their original position in the set or in a new position
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Her fanciful creations, some with comforting messages like “Be You,” are welded together from all kinds of cast-off materials, painted in bright colors and securely attached to the utility poles with four-inch bolts and chains.
From Los Angeles Times
Rags and cast-off clothing are embedded in some of Aparicio’s hangings.
From Los Angeles Times
Her throne was an old cast-off powder puff.
From Literature
An untitled wall relief by Chiffon Thomas is a body-cast of his head and shoulders, held aloft by implied “wings” made from cast-off architectural posts.
From Los Angeles Times
The weight Andrusha had lost in prison showed starkly in the cast-off jacket that hung from her shoulders.
From Seattle Times
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