cast away vs sell up

sell up vs cast away

cast away and sell up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cast away	No	No	Yes	No
sell up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, sell up is a hyponym of cast away; that is, sell up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cast away:

cast away: throw or cast away
sell up: sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Other hyponyms of cast away include unlearn, deep-six, give it the deep six, jettison, junk, scrap, trash, waste, dump, retire, abandon, liquidize, sell out, de-access, close out.

cast away (verb)	sell up (verb)
throw or cast away	sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Difference between cast away and sell up

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