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recast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb recast has 3 senses
- recast(v = verb.creation) Array - cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago" is one way to cast
- recast(v = verb.creation) remold, remould - cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" is one way to cast, mold, mould
- recast(v = verb.creation) reforge, remodel - cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" is one way to make over, redo, refashion, remake
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CIDE DICTIONARY
recast, v. t.
- To throw again. Florio. [1913 Webster]
- To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play. [1913 Webster]
- To compute, or cast up, a second time. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
recast, v. & n.
--v.tr. (past and past part. recast)
1 put into a new form.
2 improve the arrangement of.
3 change the cast of (a play etc.).
--n.
1 the act or an instance of recasting.
2 a recast form.
--v.tr. (past and past part. recast)
1 put into a new form.
2 improve the arrangement of.
3 change the cast of (a play etc.).
--n.
1 the act or an instance of recasting.
2 a recast form.
ROGET THESAURUS
recast
Plan
VB plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue.Change
VB change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.Revolution
VB revolutionize, new model, remodel, recast, strike out something new, break with the past, change the face of, unsex.
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