English

Verb

cast off ‎(third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past and past participle casted off) (simple past and past participle more properly cast off)

1. (transitive) To discard or reject something.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

2. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
3. (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.

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See also

• cast on
• castoff