cast out
Drive away completely
Cast out means to forcibly remove or expel someone from a place or group.
The phrase carries overtones of rejection and banishment, often with moral or spiritual dimensions: The demon was cast out, They cast him out of the community.
To be cast out is to be driven away and unwelcome to return.
- expelRemove forcibly from membership
- send awayCause to depart
- proscribeOfficially forbid something
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- exorciseExpel spirits ritually
exile · exclude · turn away · eject · oust · anathematize · evict · shun · cut off · remove · forsake · excommunicate · disown · black sheep · purge · marginalize · blacklist · condemn
- dismissdismiss, brush off, brush aside, wave away, wave off
- exclusionexclude, excluded, banned, bans, eliminate
- outcastspariah, pariahs, outlaws, castaway, derelicts
- rejectedrejected, spurned, rebuffed, snubbed, refused
- social outcastspariah, loner, hermit, recluse, outsider
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling