CAST DOWN
ADJECTIVES
► ABESSED cast down, humbled, abased, debased, dejected → 1707 obs.
► ABJECT cast down; brought low; downtrodden, desperate → c1450
► CRESTFALLEN cast down in confident, spirits, or courage; humbled, abashed, disheartened, dispirited, dejected → 1589
► DASHED cast down, abashed, ashamed, bashful → 1803 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FEATHER-FALLEN cast down in confidence, spirits, or courage; dispirited, disheartened, dejected; subdued in demeanour → 19C Eng. dial.
► LIKE A DYING DUCK IN A THUNDERSTORM cast down in spirit; very down in the mouth; having a forlorn and hopeless expression; depressed, dejected → 1874
NOUNS
► ABJECTION a casting down; abasement, humiliation, degradation → c1525 obs.
VERBS
► ABJECTATE to cast down; to lower, to degrade, to abase, to debase → 1731 obs.
► ACAST to cast down, to throw down, to cast away or off → c1220 obs.
► ADUST to cast down → a1250 obs.
► AFELL ► AFELLE to cast down, to lay low, to fell, to strike down → c1000 obs.
► BATE to cast down, to humble, to depress, to deject; to lower, to let down → c1380
► DASH to cast down, to depress; to daunt, dispirit, or discourage → 1550
► DAUNT to cast down, to put down, to quell → a1400 obs.
► DUMP to cast down; to cast into melancholy, to sadden, to grieve → c1585 obs.
► FASH to cast down, to shame → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAY to cast down, to abase, to humble → a1300 obs.
► UNDER to cast down, to depress → 1502 obs.
► UNDERCAST to cast down; to make subject, to subdue → a1340 obs.
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