cast away
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage."
- "The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat."
- "Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas."
- "If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this."