Definitions
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- adjective obsolete
Felled ,fallen . - adjective archaic
Cast away ,rejected ;neglected ; notused ,cast off . - adjective dialectal
Abandoned ;forlorn .
Etymologies
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Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast ("to cast away"); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast ("rejected, cast away"), past participle of forcasten ("to cast away, reject"), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste ("to reject"), Swedish förkasta ("to reject"), equivalent to for- + cast.
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