Cast Down

Definition: Cast Down

Cast Down

Verb

1. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

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Synonyms: Cast Down

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Crosswords: Cast Down

Cast down all the waves of sin (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay)

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Books

• The Cleansing of the Heavens: The Accuser Cast Down (reference)

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She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.

Javert continued, with serious looks and eyes still cast down.

His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin.

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Expressions using "cast down": be cast down ♦ cast down one's eyes ♦ To cast down. Additional references.

Albanian

ul (abase, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, reduce, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), trishtoj (sadden), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), kthej teposhtë, dëshpëroj (despair, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, embitter, get down, sadden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ألقى (cast, deliver, dump, fasten, lay down, lot, recite, set down, shift, throw, throw down), ‏رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, chuck, discard, lance, pitch, pop, project, sling, strike in, sweep, throw, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свеждам (droop, reduce, relegate), гнетя (depress, gripe, oppress, prey, weigh down), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside). (various references)

Czech

sklopit, sklíèit (deject, pinch, weigh down), deprimovat (depress, dishearten, dispirit, drag down, get down, get down on one's knees). (various references)

French

mettre bas (calve), jeter par terre, déposer. (various references)

German

niederwerfen (defeat, floor, overcome, prostrate, put down, suppress, thrash, throw down, throwdown), niederschlagen (beat down, down, fell, flatten, knock down, knockdown, lower, precipitate, put down, quell, suppress, to condense, to knock down, to knockdown, turn down, waive). (various references)

Greek 

είμαι αποθαρρυμένοσ (be cast down). (various references)

Hebrew 

למ�'ר (defeat, knife, knock out, overthrow, overturn, rout). (various references)

Hungarian

lehangol (depress, distress, get down, hump, it gives me the blues, to cast down, to deject, to disconcert, to distress, to get sy down, to hip, to hump, to unman), ledob (drop, precipitate, throw down, to drop, to pitch off, to precipitate, to release, to spill, to throw down, to throw off, to toss off, to tumble down, toss off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

目�'伏せる (to cast down one's eyes), 傾け�'す (to cast down, to lay low). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたむけたおす (to cast down, to lay low), め�'ふせる (to cast down one's eyes). (various references)

Manx

lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, raze, run down, topple, tumble). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

humilhar (abase, abash, bemean, cheapen, demean, depress, humble, humiliate, let down, lour, lower, mortify, prostrate), baixar o olhar (drop one's eyes, look down, lower one's gaze). (various references)

Romanian

descuraja (beat down, bring low, chill, damp, dash, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve), deprimat (crest-fallen, dejectedly, downcast, down-hearted, grumpish, low, low-spirited, melancholy, sick), deprima (bring low, deject, depress, discourage, sadden), abãtut (blue, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, disheartened, dispirited, downcast, down-hearted, downsome, dumpy, gloomy, heart-heavy, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, in poor spirits, jaw-fallen, lamenting, long-faced, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mopish, sad, sick, useless). (various references)

Russian 

свергать (depose, dethrone, overthrow, subvert, subverting), разрушать (attack, break, broke, defeated, demolish, destroy, disestablish, erode, make havoc of, play havoc, play havoc among, play havoc with, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, shatter, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wracked, wreck), опускать (depress, down, let down, omit, omiting, pull down, sink, skip). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

baciti u očajanje. (various references)

Spanish

echar por tierra (dispose of, knock down, shatter), echar abajo (break down, overthrow, shoot down, sink, tear down, throw down), abatir (abase, beat down, break, bring down, demolish, depress, lay, leak, raze, tip, tumble). (various references)

Swedish

slå ner (beat down, clobber, flatten, knock down, lay out, strike down, swoop down). (various references)

Turkish

canını sıkmak (annoy, bait, bother, devil, disgruntle, displease, distress oneself, fash, get in one's hair, give smb. the hump, give the hump, give the pips, hassle, irk, offput, put about, put off, ruffle smb.'s temper, trouble, turn off, vex), indirmek (bash, bring down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), aşağı atmak, üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Turkmen 

sallamak (drop, lower). (various references)

Ukrainian

скидати (bare, cast, cast off, deduct, deject, depose, detrude, dismount, dump, jettison, kick off, lay off, precipitate, remove, shuck off, subvert, throw down, throw off, toss), руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), опускати (decay, demit, down, let down, lower, omit, pull down, put down, sink), пригнічувати (aggrieve, deject, depress, downcast, flatten, hold down, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke). (various references)

afflictus, affligo, praecipita, praecipitabit, praecipitabo, praecipitabunt, praecipitarent, praecipitarum, praecipitas, praecipitate, praecipitationis, praecipitatus, praecipitaverunt, praecipitavit. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: downcast.

-2 letters: cantos, cotans, octads, octans.

-3 letters: adown, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, coast, coats, codas, costa, cotan, datos, dawns, dawts, doats, donas, downs, nowts, octad, octan, santo, scant, stand, tacos, toads, towns, wands, wants, woads, wonts.

-4 letters: acts, ados, ands, ants, awns, cads, cans, cant, cast, cats, caws, coat, coda, cods, cons, cost, cots.

+1 letter: downcasts.

+2 letters: wainscoted.

+3 letters: wainscotted.