recast

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

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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.

Origin of recast

First recorded in 1890–95; re- + cast

Related formsre·cast·er, noun

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Examples from the Web for recast

Contemporary Examples

McEwan novels often have formally dazzling conclusions that recast the meaning of the preceding story.
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September 11, 2014
Above all, universities are instructed to look for “opportunity for negotiation” and “opportunity to recast the questions.”
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June 6, 2014
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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March 17, 2014
But really it told a rich history, recast and simplified into a series of icons and absurdities.
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February 7, 2014

Historical Examples

February 16 we recast it, and it proved to be of a proper degree of strength.
Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works
Edward Singleton Holden
Our conception of the nature of the contest in which we are engaged must be recast.
England and Germany
Emile Joseph Dillon
Political economy, he thought, would have to be recast and humanised.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy
Paul Jones.
Francesco Berni, who recast the Orlando Innamorato, was born circ.
The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4
Lord Byron
But they could not, for the very reasons that had induced me to recast it, and they declined it.
Old Familiar Faces
Theodore Watts-Dunton

British Dictionary definitions for recast

recast

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

v.

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

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Examples from the Web for recast

Contemporary Examples

McEwan novels often have formally dazzling conclusions that recast the meaning of the preceding story.

Above all, universities are instructed to look for “opportunity for negotiation” and “opportunity to recast the questions.”

The second point of debate goes to whether all artists borrow and recast and appropriate.

But they can recast the contours of the contest; they can meet voters where they already are.

But really it told a rich history, recast and simplified into a series of icons and absurdities.

Historical Examples

February 16 we recast it, and it proved to be of a proper degree of strength.

Our conception of the nature of the contest in which we are engaged must be recast.

Political economy, he thought, would have to be recast and humanised.

Francesco Berni, who recast the Orlando Innamorato, was born circ.

But they could not, for the very reasons that had induced me to recast it, and they declined it.

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Word Origin and History for recast

v.

Origin of recast