Cast_off vs Forego - 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 precede, to go before.
* Wordsworth
; to abandon, to relinquish
* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
Cast_off is a related term of forego.
As verbs the difference between cast_off and forego
is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while forego is to precede, to go before or forego can be ; to abandon, to relinquish.cast_off
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See also
* cast on * castoff English phrasal verbsforego
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Usage notes
* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").Etymology 2
See forgoVerb
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
