outcast
/ˈaʊtkæst/ verb C1- To cast out; to banish.
He/she/it outcasts · Past outcast · Past participle outcast · -ing form outcasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- outcast
- He/she/it
- outcasts
- Past
- outcast
- Past participle
- outcast
- -ing form
- outcasting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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They are outcasts.
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
There, crouched against the side of the wall which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone, watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society.
Cavalcanti, his father, had been seen in Paris, and it was expected that he would re-appear to claim the illustrious outcast.
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