Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cast off

To drive out; to expel.

(transitive) to wash something onto the shore. / (transitive, dated) to compute. / (transitive) to bring up as a reproach. / (transitive, somewhat archaic) to construct by digging.

(transitive, idiomatic) to discard

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cast, shadow. / (idiomatic, figuratively, of an event, often a tragic one) To dampen future events.

(intransitive) To try to find; look around; search. / (transitive) To plan; plot; contrive.

(transitive, intransitive) To cast about.

(geology) An irregular part of an overlying stratum (often of sandstone) that is forced down into a softer underlying stratum

A form of fine casting of metal parts based on the lost wax method

A weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.