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verb (tr, adverb)

(of the sea) to cast ashore

to compute (figures or a total)

to bring up as a reproach against a person

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How to use cast up in a sentence

And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The indigestible parts are afterwards cast up in pellets in the same manner as with Hawks.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith
Walking, half awake, Ida floundered among the boulders and through a horrible maze of whitened driftwood cast up by the stream.
The Gold Trail|Harold Bindloss

They both know the secret of my parentage, although old Meg has told me a hundred times that I was cast up by the sea.
They Looked and Loved|Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

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