downcasting

Verb

downcast (third-person singular simple present downcasts, present participle downcasting, simple past and past participle downcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) downcasted)

1. (transitive) To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
2. (transitive) To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).
   • For there shall come a mightier blast, / There shall be a darker day; / And the stars, from heaven down-cast, / Like red leaves be swept away!1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Midnight Mass for the Dying Year”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 30
3. (transitive) To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).
4. (figuratively, transitive) To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.

   Synonyms:

   cast down

5. (transitive) To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.

   Antonyms:

   upcast

6. (Scotland, transitive) To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).

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