cast out

English

Verb

cast out (third-person singular simple present casts out, present participle casting out, simple past and past participle cast out)

1. To drive out; to expel.
   • 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:

     Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Outlaws: Outcasts Codex entry:

     Cast out for criminal behavior or their actions during the uprising, exiles from the Nexus are no longer welcome at the station or Initiative outposts.

Derived terms

• cast out nines

Translations

Translations

• FDutch: verjagen (nl), verdrijven (nl)
• French: chasser (fr), expulser (fr)
• Japanese: 追い出す (ja) (oidasu)
• Russian: изгонять (ru) impf (izgonjatʹ)

Anagrams

• acts out, outacts, outcast