to cast
- verb
- /kæst/
- Archaic
- The dog suddenly cast its food onto the ground during the car ride.
Examples
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They believed the evil was cast out.
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As the body doth regurgitate spoilt meats, so shalt the ungodly be cast from the bosom of fair Dunsboro.
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Unclean spirit, I cast you out!
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Jesus cast out demons, and shamans have been doing the same thing for thousands of years.
Fiction book (1991) -
Jesus said that some demons could only be cast out by prayer and fasting.
Blog text (32) -
Readers thus learn that they too can cast out their sixties demons and absolve themselves of their sinful guilt.
Academic text (2014) -
The Reverend Solomon would preach about sin; I thought about casting out sin and demons, about escaping the flames of hell.
Fiction book (1999) -
After eating too quickly, he cast up part of his dinner in the garden.
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The puppy was feeling sick and cast on the floor right before dinner.
Synonyms
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
To force food or drink out of your mouth
To throw up when you feel sick
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
Antonyms
Idioms
- Literature
To be the first to criticize someone when you have the same fault
- Archaic
Do something kind without expecting anything back, hoping it helps later
- Informal
To hurt someone by reminding them of an embarrassing thing they did
- Literature
To give something valuable to people who do not appreciate it
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A very hard but brittle metal made by melting iron and pouring it into molds
- Specialized
A hard shell of plaster that keeps a broken bone still while it heals
- Specialized
A type of cast iron made by adding other metals to make it stronger and resist wear
- Specialized
A disease of pine and spruce trees that makes their needles turn brown and fall early
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cast meaning to vomit comes from the old sense 'to throw', which is the same idea as 'throw up'. So to cast was to 'throw' up the stomach's contents.