be+cast+down

  • 21cast — [kast, käst] vt. cast, casting [ME casten < ON kasta, to throw] 1. a) to put, deposit, or throw with force or violence; fling; hurl b) to give vent to as if by throwing [to cast aspersions] 2. to deposit (a ballot); register (a vote) …

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  • 22down|cast — «DOWN KAST, KAHST», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. turned downward; directed downward: »Ashamed of his mistake, he stood before us with downcast eyes. 2. Figurative. dejected; sad; discouraged: »One failure after another had made her downcast.… …

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  • 23down — [adj1/adv] below; physically lower bottomward, cascading, declining, depressed, descending, downgrade, downhill, downward, dropping, earthward, falling, gravitating, groundward, inferior, nether, precipitating, sagging, sinking, sliding, slipping …

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  • 24be cast down — mainly literary to feel upset or disappointed …

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  • 25cast — castable, adj. castability, n. /kast, kahst/, v., cast, casting, n., adj. v.t. 1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice. 2. to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket. 3. to direct (the eye, a glance, etc.),… …

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  • 26cast — [c]/kast / (say kahst) verb (cast, casting) –verb (t) 1. to throw; fling; hurl (away, off, out, etc.) 2. to throw off or away. 3. to direct (the eye, a glance, etc.) 4. to cause (light, etc.) to fall upon something or in a certain direction. 5.… …

  • 27cast — [[t]kɑ͟ːst, kæ̱st[/t]] ♦♦ casts, casting (The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.) 1) N COUNT COLL The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it. The show is very amusing and the cast are …

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  • 28cast — 1 verb past tense and past participle cast 1 cast (a) light on/onto a) to provide new information which makes something easier to understand: research findings that cast new light on the origin of our universe b) literary to send light onto a… …

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  • 29cast — v. & n. v. (past and past part. cast) 1 tr. throw, esp. deliberately or forcefully. 2 tr. (often foll. by on, over) a direct or cause to fall (one s eyes, a glance, light, a shadow, a spell, etc.). b express (doubts, aspersions, etc.). 3 tr.… …

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  • 30cast — cast1 [ kæst ] (past tense and past participle cast) verb *** ▸ 1 choose actor for part ▸ 2 describe someone as a type ▸ 3 look at someone/something ▸ 4 give light/a shadow ▸ 5 throw ▸ 6 move fishing line/net ▸ 7 make something in a mold ▸ 8 tell …

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