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CAST DOWN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Example:
The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Synonyms:
cast down; deject; demoralise; demoralize; depress; dismay; dispirit; get down
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "cast down" is one way to...):
discourage (deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast down"):
chill (depress or discourage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples:
She said nothing; and Eleanor, endeavouring to collect herself and speak with firmness, but with eyes still cast down, soon went on.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I felt I was in England again, and really was quite cast down on Traddles's account.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“They are here,” the other answered, with his eyes cast down and his hands crossed upon his chest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To be sure, continued Lucy, after a few minutes silence on both sides, his mother must provide for him sometime or other; but poor Edward is so cast down by it!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended dignity.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And he cast down upon the floor a paper that I instantly recognized—none other than the chart on yellow paper, with the three red crosses, that I had found in the oilcloth at the bottom of the captain's chest.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She cast down her eyes, and trembled.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hast forgotten that the five-and-thirtieth rule of the order is that in the presence of a woman the face should be ever averted and the eyes cast down?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Afterwards, when I went upstairs, as I passed the door of my little chamber, which was dark, I had an indistinct impression of her being within it, cast down upon the floor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Oh, I weary of your preaching!” she cried, and swept away with a toss of her beautiful head, leaving Alleyne as cast down and ashamed as though he had himself proposed some infamous thing.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
