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cast up

cast up verb: to wash something onto the shore.

Verb

cast up (third-person singular simple present casts up, present participle casting up, simple past and past participle cast up)

  1. (transitive) To wash something onto the shore.
  2. (dated, transitive) To compute.
    • When the Columns N S E W, are compleated, cast up the Figures in the Columns N and S, and also those in the Columns E and W.1771, Arthur Burns, Geodaesia Improved
    • He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 11”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To bring up as a reproach.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To construct by digging.
    • to cast up earthworks
    • Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 62:10
  5. (transitive) To apply a cast to a broken limb.
    • The doctor cast up my leg.

Forms of cast up

third-person singular presentcasts up
present participlecasting up
past participlecast up
pastcast up

Questions about cast up

What does cast up mean?
Cast up means to wash something onto the shore.
What part of speech is cast up?
Cast up is a verb.
What is the past tense of cast up?
The past tense of cast up is cast up.

Words near cast up in the dictionary

  1. cast someone's water
  2. cast steel
  3. cast steels
  4. cast stone
  5. cast the first stone
  6. cast up
  7. cast up one's accounts
  8. cast-in-place
  9. cast-iron
  10. cast-iron plant
  11. cast-iron plants

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