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cast
Synonyms and Antonyms of cast
- stock market analysts offered an optimistic cast for the coming year
- the walls had a slight yellowish cast
- a mischievous cast in his eye when we asked what our destination would be
- his face took on a somewhat sad cast when we asked how his ill wife was faring
- the lovely cast of the baby's features
cast
Synonyms and Antonyms of cast
- spermaceti candles, made from whale oil, are known to cast an exceptionally bright light
- cast her eyes skyward for signs of the rescue plane
- carefully cast the letter of complaint as politely as possible
- cast a rock into the stream
Synonym Discussion of cast
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- discard old clothes
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- cast off her friends
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- shed a bad habit
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- finally sloughed off the depression
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- scrap all the old ways
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- would junk our educational system
cast (off)
Synonyms and Antonyms of cast (off)
- once she became rich and didn't need them anymore, she cast off all her old friends like so much junk
cashier, chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off) , throw away, throw out, toss, unload
cast (up)
Synonyms and Antonyms of cast (up)
- had worked as a clerk in a countinghouse, mainly casting up long columns of figures every day
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