1PHRASAL VERB 丢弃;摆脱 If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you. 丢弃;摆脱 [literary] [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests. [VERBPREP. noun]
该文劝告女性不要再对丈夫和牧师低三下四。
There was an extraordinary feeling of hope and relief, as if a great burden had been cast off. [VERBPREP. noun (not pronoun)]
ADJ [ADJ n](尤指衣服)旧的,过时的,淘汰的Cast-off things, especially clothes, are ones which someone no longer uses because they are old or unfashionable, and which they give to someone else or throw away. (尤指衣服)旧的,过时的,淘汰的
Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing.