CAST DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cast down mean? 

• CAST DOWN (verb)
  The verb CAST DOWN has 1 sense:

1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

  Familiarity information: CAST DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAST DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

cast down; deject; demoralise; demoralize; depress; dismay; dispirit; get down

Context example:

The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

Hypernyms (to "cast down" is one way to...):

discourage (deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cast down"):

chill (depress or discourage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Mr. Peggotty, standing with one hand on the gunwale of the boat, and his eyes cast down, put his disengaged hand before his face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But do not be cast down.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The three rode abreast, Alleyne Edricson with his eyes cast down and his mind distrait, for his thoughts were busy with the conversation which he had had with Sir Nigel in the morning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For my part, I was horribly cast down.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The memory of it persisted, and in the moments when he was most cast down, he dwelt upon it eagerly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘Look here, dad,’ said he with his eyes cast down, ‘can you let me have £ 200?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Lord! no wonder she has been looking so bad and so cast down this last week or two, for this matter I suppose has been hanging over her head as long as that.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fanny obeyed, with eyes cast down and colour rising.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Too much cast down to speak, we stumbled down the dark tunnel and made our way back to the camp.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)