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lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
These news depressed her
How To Use cast down In A Sentence
- It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
- In contrast, the Catholic doctrine of suffering, like the Beatitudes, inverted the oppressive world of nature: the lowly were raised up and the mighty cast down.
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- The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down.
- He is not easily cast down.
- They cast down their weapons at last.
- The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
- I jerked up my chin to see my uncles had already cast down their shovels.
- Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.
- Having delivered this eulogism of the dead, the lady folded her hands placidly, and with eyes cast down, but attentive, settled herself to await developments. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
