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casts up

casts up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cast up.

Meaning of cast up

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
  3. (transitive) To bring up as a reproach.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To construct by digging.
    • to cast up earthworks
  5. (transitive) To apply a cast to a broken limb.
    • The doctor cast up my leg.

Questions about casts up

What is casts up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Casts up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cast up.

Words near casts up in the dictionary

  1. casts pearls before swine
  2. casts round
  3. casts snowballs
  4. casts someone's water
  5. casts the first stone
  6. casts up
  7. casts up one's accounts
  8. castware
  9. castworthier
  10. castworthiest
  11. castworthy

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