cast away

Questions about cast away

What does cast away mean?

cast away means "throw or cast away".

What is another word for cast away?

Close synonyms include discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cast away a common word?

cast away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.