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Definition of "cast-off" [cast•-off]

  • Alternative spelling of castoff. (adjective)

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Use "cast-off" in a sentence
  • "I remember the day that our cast-off, lovingly rehabbed Ampex color videotape machine finally "synced up" (or "locked up") and started working."
  • "Still, very gradually, the days became unglued, loosening and flapping in the wind that swept the desert in a turmoil of cast-off spines and seed pods."
  • "The trees, he soon came to realize, were not trees at all, but rather the cast-off antlers of the caribou, though far larger than any antlers he had ever seen before."