Recast

Quick meaning: Recast is a verb meaning To cast or throw again.

Meaning

To cast or throw again.

More Meanings

1. To mould again.
2. To reproduce in a new form.
3. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
4. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (actors) to different roles.
5. The act or process of recasting.
6. (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

Example Sentences

She was recast as the villain.

Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.

The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.

the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.

Word Forms

• recasts
• recasting
• recasted

Synonyms for recast

Depending on context, synonyms include remodel, remould, remold, reforge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reforge, remould, remold, remodel, reworked, redrafting.

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