cast down
- crestfallen adj.
- depressed adj.
- dejected adj.
- despondent adj.
- doleful adj.
- down adj.
- downcast adj.
- heavy-hearted adj.
- lowly adj.
- melancholic adj.
- spiritless adj.
- tristful adj.
- unwashed adj.
- debase v.
- defeat v.
- degrade v.
- demean v.
- depress v.
- disappoint v.
- discourage v.
- dishearten v.
- humble v.
- humiliate v.
- lower v.
- lower v.
- raze v.
- sadden v.
- sink v.
- sink v.
- submerse v.
Example Sentences
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The cunning, determined, rhetorically skillful Odysseus, long absent from his kingdom after a devastating war, becomes the devilishly clever Satan, cast down from his original home after the angelic civil war in heaven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
They began picking their way down the beach, eyes cast down as they searched for the right white splotches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023
His face glows for much of the episode "The Pine Barrens," cast down into a screen.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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