CASTAWAY
Castaway
A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island, either to evade captors or the world in general. A person may also be left ashore as punishment .The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Castaway
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Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cast Away
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cast away
Verb
- To discard.
- She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
- To abandon or maroon.
- The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
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castaway
Noun
- A shipwrecked sailor.
- Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
- A discarded person or thing.
- This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
- An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
- These homeless people are society's castaways.
Adjective
- Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
- After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
- Shipwrecked.
- The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
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