Usually means: Thrown out, abandoned, left isolated.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cast away: Vocabulary.com
  2. cast-away: Wordnik
  3. cast away: Wiktionary
  4. cast away: Dictionary.com
  5. Cast Away (album), Cast Away (film), Cast Away, Cast away: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. cast away: Rhymezone
  7. cast away: FreeDictionary.org
  8. cast away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. cast away: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. cast away: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cast Away (2000), Cast Away (film), cast away: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast away: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast away: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cast away: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cast away)

verb:  (transitive) To discard.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To abandon or maroon.
verb:  (computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.

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