All cast away synonyms
cast a·way
C c verb cast away
- come across — If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lay out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- outlay — an expending or spending, as of money.
- shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- cough up — If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pay up — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- spring for — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- use up — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
adj cast away
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- homeless — without a home: a homeless child.
- penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- out in left field — Baseball. the area of the outfield to the left of center field, as viewed from home plate. the position of the player covering this area.
- bereft — If a person or thing is bereft of something, they no longer have it.
- derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- forlorn — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.