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Cast_off vs Forsake - What's the difference?

cast_off | forsake | Related terms |

Cast_off is a related term of forsake.


As verbs the difference between cast_off and forsake

is that cast_off is to discard or reject something while forsake is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.

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

    forsake

    English

    Verb

  • To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.

    • References

    * * Notes: English irregular verbs English words prefixed with for- ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • to give up, relinquish
  • to denounce (the devil)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

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