cast down

cast down

vb

(tr, adverb) to make (a person) discouraged or dejected

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

cast down - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" depress, dismay, dispirit, deject, demoralise, demoralize, get down chill - depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers" discourage - deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

cast

verb

1. To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm:

dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, pitch, shoot, shy, sling, throw, toss.

Informal: fire.

2. To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something:

aim, direct, head, level, point, set, train, turn, zero in.

Military: lay.

3. To send out heat, light, or energy:

emit, irradiate, project, radiate, shed, throw.

4. To form a strategy for:

blueprint, chart, conceive, contrive, design, devise, formulate, frame, lay, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out.

Informal: dope out.

Idiom: lay plans.

5. To ascertain by mathematics:

calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon.

6. To combine (figures) to form a sum:

add (up), foot (up), sum (up), tot (up), total, totalize.

phrasal verb
cast about

To try to find something:

hunt, look, quest, search, seek.

phrasal verb
cast out

To rid one's mind of:

banish, dismiss, dispel, shut out.

noun

1. An act of throwing:

fling, heave, hurl, launch, pitch, shy, sling, throw, toss.

2. A disposition of the facial features that conveys meaning, feeling, or mood:

aspect, countenance, expression, face, look, visage.

3. A hollow device for shaping a fluid or plastic substance:

form, matrix, mold.

4. The external outline of a thing:

configuration, figure, form, pattern, shape.

5. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members:

breed, description, feather, ilk, kind, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety.

Informal: persuasion.

6. An inclination to something:

bent, bias, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, trend, turn.

7. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation:

hue, tinge, tint, tone.

Translations

abbattere

w>cast down

vt sep eyes → niederschlagen; (liter, = throw down) weapons → hinwerfen; to be cast down (fig) → niedergeschlagen sein