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castaway
[kast-uh-wey, kahst-]
noun
a shipwrecked person.
anything cast adrift or thrown away.
an outcast.
Synonyms: , ,
adjective
cast adrift.
thrown away.
castaway
/ ˈɑːəˌɱɪ /
noun
a person who has been shipwrecked
something thrown off or away; castoff
adjective
shipwrecked or put adrift
thrown away or rejected
verb
(tr, adverb; often passive) to cause (a ship, person, etc) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of castaway1
Example Sentences
The Times was soon writing about a new breed of homeless in L.A.: economic castaways who had lost jobs in the recession.
The coastguard said a French Navy Dauphin helicopter was monitoring the area where the boat sank "to confirm the successful recovery of all the castaways".
His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".
Years later when a shred of aircraft aluminum and the rubber heel from a woman’s shoe were found on an island 400 miles from Earhart’s destination, she was imagined to have been a castaway.
This show, 46 seasons in and still going strong, returns with the host Jeff Probst and 18 castaways who are headed to Fiji to compete and survive.
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