recast

[ verb ree-kast, -kahst; noun ree-kast, -kahst ]

/ verb riˈkæst, -ˈkɑst; noun ˈriˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /

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verb (used with object), re·cast, re·cast·ing.

to cast again or anew.

to form, fashion, or arrange again.

to remodel or reconstruct (a literary work, document, sentence, etc.).

to supply (a theater or opera work) with a new cast.

noun

a recasting.

a new form produced by recasting.

Nearby words

recapitulation, recapitulation theory, recaption, recapture, recarburize, recast, recce, recco, reccy, recd, recd.

Origin of recast

First recorded in 1890–95; re- + cast

Related formsre·cast·er, noun

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McEwan novels often have formally dazzling conclusions that recast the meaning of the preceding story.
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Above all, universities are instructed to look for “opportunity for negotiation” and “opportunity to recast the questions.”
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The second point of debate goes to whether all artists borrow and recast and appropriate.
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But they can recast the contours of the contest; they can meet voters where they already are.
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But really it told a rich history, recast and simplified into a series of icons and absurdities.
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It was recast, however, and two others of the same size were also cast.
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Of that state of mind, of any fear of consequences whatever, there is not a trace throughout the recast of his pamphlet.
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The Gnostic recast Lipsius dates about the middle of the 3rd century.
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But still the whole system, though heated in the furnace of Dravidian emotion, has not been recast in a new mould.
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Edith was the sparkling diamond that gave it its setting, Star was the rough jewel come to be recast.
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British Dictionary definitions for recast

recast

/ (riːˈkɑːst) /

verb -casts, -casting or -cast (tr)

(often foll by as) to give (someone or something) a new role, function, or characterrecast themselves as moderate and kind

(often foll by as) to cast (an actor or actress) again or in a different part

to cast new actors or actresses for a production of (a play, film, etc)

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Word Origin and History for recast

recast

c.1600, from re- + cast (v.). Of literary works and other writing, from 1790. Theater sense is from 1951.

recast

verb (used with object), re·cast, re·cast·ing.

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for recast

recast

verb -casts, -casting or -cast (tr)

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