Cast_off vs Disown - What's the difference?
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To discard or reject something.
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(ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
(knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
Cast_off is a related term of disown.
As verbs the difference between cast_off and disown
is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while disown is to refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.cast_off
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See also
* cast on * castoff English phrasal verbsdisown
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(en verb)- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.