cast down
- crestfallen adj.
- depressed adj.
- dejected adj.
- despondent adj.
- doleful adj.
- down adj.
- downcast adj.
- heavy-hearted adj.
- lowly adj.
- melancholic adj.
- spiritless adj.
- tristful adj.
- unwashed adj.
- debase v.
- defeat v.
- degrade v.
- demean v.
- depress v.
- disappoint v.
- discourage v.
- dishearten v.
- humble v.
- humiliate v.
- lower v.
- lower v.
- raze v.
- sadden v.
- sink v.
- sink v.
- submerse v.
Example Sentences
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Because of budget trims, you were tasked with having to slim the cast down and scale back screen time for some veteran cast members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
One more day to cast down the mighty, lift up the lowly and send the rich away.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
Instead of clothes, she was wrapped in a towel, eyes cast down in a vacant stare, a photo taken during the visit shows.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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