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cast out

cast out verb: to drive out; to expel.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To drive out; to expel.
    • 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...1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533
    • 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.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Outlaws: Outcasts Codex entry

cast out meaning in Tamil

cast out in Tamil

to cast out or empty the contents of a basket or sack
கொட்டு koṭṭu

Forms of cast out

third-person singular presentcasts out
present participlecasting out
past participlecast out
pastcast out

Words formed from cast out

Questions about cast out

What does cast out mean?
Cast out means to drive out; to expel.
What is cast out in Tamil?
Cast out in Tamil is கொட்டு (koṭṭu). See Cast out meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cast out?
Cast out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cast out?
The past tense of cast out is cast out.

Words near cast out in the dictionary

  1. cast one's mind back
  2. cast one's net far and wide
  3. cast one's net wide
  4. cast one's net wider
  5. cast one's vote
  6. cast out
  7. cast out nines
  8. cast out the Devil with Beelzebub
  9. cast over
  10. cast pearls before swine
  11. cast round

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cast out (page history and authors); கொட்டு (Tamil) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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