👥 Group of actors ➡️ To throw or send 🗳️ To submit a vote 🎭 To assign roles 🧥 To remove 🦴 A hard cover ⚒️ To shape by pouring 🗿 A shaped object 🏹 A strong throw 🙂 Shape or form 🎲 To choose randomly 🎲 Throwing dice 🧊 A mold container 🎣 Throwing a line 📺 To stream media 🤢 To vomit

to cast

1 9.3

To throw up what is in the stomach

verb
/kæst/

Archaic

: vomitar

The dog suddenly cast its food onto the ground during the car ride.

Examples

They believed the evil was cast out.

The Nun (2018)
As the body doth regurgitate spoilt meats, so shalt the ungodly be cast from the bosom of fair Dunsboro.

Choke (2008)
Unclean spirit, I cast you out!

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
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.
The puppy was feeling sick and cast on the floor right before dinner.

Synonyms

to throw up

vsto cast

Informal

313 2.3

To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth

uses an equally general description but not necessarily colloquial

to puke

vsto cast

NSFW

170 6.6

To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick

is a neutral description without informal connotations

to vomit

vsto cast

133 1.0

To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth

is the same action described with a general phrase rather than a single verb

to barf

vsto cast

NSFW

43 7.7

To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth

is a neutral description without slang tone

to retch

vsto cast

19 7.2

To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach

describes the actual ejection rather than the effort to produce it

to regurgitate

vsto cast

7 7.7

To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth

describes the same upward movement but focuses on human vomiting

to ralph

vsto cast

Slang

5 9.5

To force food or drink out of your mouth

is a neutral descriptive phrase rather than casual speech

to vomit up

vsto cast

Informal

4 3.6

Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth

is a single-word description of the same bodily action

to upchuck

vsto cast

NSFW

3 8.8

To throw up food and drink from your stomach

is a neutral bodily action description without comic tone

to chuck

vsto cast

1 9.6

To be sick and bring food up from your stomach

is a neutral description without the same informal register

to sick

vsto cast

1 7.4

To throw up

is a more detailed phrase describing the same event

to spew

vsto cast

Informal

1 5.7

To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach

describes the action generally without stressing forcefulness

to disgorge

vsto cast

1 8.7

To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick

is the general act without implying dramatic force

to spue

vsto cast

NSFW

1 9.9

To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit

focuses specifically on stomach content ejection rather than other materials

to honk

vsto cast

NSFW

1 9.3

To throw up when you feel sick

is a neutral description that does not imply slang

to be sick

vsto cast

1 1.7

To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth

is a compact single-word description of that same action

to regorge

vsto cast

9.9

To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick

is a plain description without the formal nuance of disgorging

Antonyms

to ingest

76 3.6

To eat or drink something so it goes into your body

to retain

19 3.0

To hold something inside so it does not escape

Idioms

to cast a shadow

13 6.2

Make a person, event, or situation seem less happy and less hopeful

to cast the first stone

Literature

8 7.7

To be the first to criticize someone when you have the same fault

to cast a wider net

7 4.2

To look in more places to find someone or something

to cast a pall

4 8.2

Make a meeting or event feel gloomy and sad

to cast pearls before swine

Literature

1 9.5

To give something valuable to people who do not appreciate it

to cast bread upon the waters

Archaic

1 9.9

Do something kind without expecting anything back, hoping it helps later

cast in concrete

1 6.7

Fixed and not able to be changed

to cast a chill

1 8.2

Make people feel uneasy, disappointed or uncomfortable

to cast in someone's teeth

Informal

1 9.9

To hurt someone by reminding them of an embarrassing thing they did

to cast up one's accounts

9.3

To add up the money someone gets and spends to find the total

Phrasal Verbs

to cast out

50 6.2

Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them

to cast a spell

Literature

37 7.4

Use words or actions to make a magical change

to cast off

28 4.8

To get rid of something you do not want or need

to cast doubt

23 4.6

Make people feel unsure if something is true

to cast aside

Informal

17 3.7

Reject or ignore people and things you no longer want

to cast your vote

13 3.1

Give your choice in an election or official decision

to cast away

10 4.1

To throw away things you no longer want

to cast about

4 7.2

To look around or think hard to find something you need

to cast around

1 5.6

To look in a worried way for an idea or solution

to cast down

1 6.3

To make someone feel sad or discouraged

to cast loose

1 6.7

To free something by letting go of ties or limits

to cast off

Jargon

1 8.2

To finish the last row of knitting so the stitches do not come undone

to cast the net

1 3.2

Throw a fishing net into the water to catch fish

to cast on

Jargon

1 6.9

To make the first row of stitches on a needle when you start knitting

to cast anchor

1 3.1

To lower an anchor from a boat or ship to hold it in place

to sand cast

Specialized

1 6.6

Make a metal object by pouring liquid metal into a sand mold

to cast one's mind back

6.3

Think about something that happened in the past to remember it

Compounds

cast iron

Specialized

29 3.7

A very hard but brittle metal made by melting iron and pouring it into molds

cast of characters

17 3.4

A group of actors who perform in a play or film

plaster cast

Specialized

5 3.1

A hard shell of plaster that keeps a broken bone still while it heals

cast-off

2 4.5

A thing, often clothing, that someone has thrown away

Caucasian cast

1 6.9

A group of actors who are mostly white

cast-iron plant

1 7.2

A very hardy houseplant that has long green leaves and needs little care

needle cast

Specialized

1 7.9

A disease of pine and spruce trees that makes their needles turn brown and fall early

alloy cast iron

Specialized

6.0

A type of cast iron made by adding other metals to make it stronger and resist wear

leaf cast

9.9

A disease of evergreen trees like pines that makes their needles fall early

soft-cast steel

Specialized

5.1

Steel with very little carbon that is easy to shape

How Violent

to vomit

133 1.0

to cast

Archaic

1 9.3

retch

1 8.4

Surface Forms

cast infinitive

cast past

cast past participle

casting present participle

casts third person singular

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.