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Cast_off vs Disown - What's the difference?

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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

English

Verb

  • 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.
  • See also

    * cast on * castoff English phrasal verbs

    disown

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to own or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
  • Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to ''disown'' their daughter Juliet if she didn't go through with marrying Count Paris.

    Usage notes

    Particularly used of parents regarding their children, and stronger than the similar estrange, which can also be used of children regarding their parents, or of siblings.

    Synonyms

    * disavow * disclaim