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cast away
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | left alone, deserted |
| Synonyms: | alone, cast aside, cast away, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forsaken, given up, godforsaken, jilted, left, left in the cold, left in the lurch, neglected, on the rocks, outcast, passed up, pigeon-holed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, unoccupied, vacant, vacated |
| Antonyms: | adopted, cherished, defended, maintained, supported |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | missing, off-track |
| Synonyms: | absent, adrift, astray, at sea, cast away, disappeared, disoriented, down the drain, fallen between cracks, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone astray, hidden, invisible, irrecoverable, irretrievable, irrevocable, kiss goodbye, lacking, minus, mislaid, misplaced, missed, nowhere to be found, obscured, off-course, out the window, strayed, unredeemed, vanished, wandering, wayward, without |
| Antonyms: | accomplishing, found, successful, winning |
| Main Entry: | maroon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon |
| Synonyms: | beach, cast ashore, cast away, desert, forsake, isolate, leave, leave high and dry, strand |
| Antonyms: | care, help, maintain, rescue, save, take care |
| Main Entry: | spend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, pay out |
| Synonyms: | absorb, allocate, ante up, apply, bestow, blow*, cast away, come across, come through, concentrate, confer, consume, contribute, cough up, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, donate, drain, drop, employ, empty, evote, exhaust, expend, foot the bill, fritter, give, hand out, invest, lavish, lay out, liquidate, misspend, outlay, pay down, pay up, put in, run through, settle, shell out, spring for, squander, throw away, use, use up, waste |
| Antonyms: | earn, get, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stranded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marooned, abandoned |
| Synonyms: | aground, ashore, beached, cast away, godforsaken, grounded, helpless, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground, shipwrecked, sidelined, sidetracked, wrecked |
| Antonyms: | found |
| Main Entry: | shipwrecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sunk |
| Synonyms: | cast away, grounded, marooned, reefed, stranded, wrecked |
| Main Entry: | lorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abandoned |
| Synonyms: | alone, bereft, cast aside, cast away, derelict, deserted, desolate, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, given up, godforsaken, jilted, left, left in the cold, left in the lurch, neglected, on the rocks, outcast, passed up, pigeon-holed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, unoccupied, vacant, vacated |
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