cast away

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To discard.
   • She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.

   Synonyms:

   at discard

2. (transitive) To abandon or maroon.
   • 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....1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521
3. (transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
   • 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.1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180