Antonyms for cast up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kast, kahst

Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst

Definition of cast up

Origin : mid-13c., "a throw, an act of throwing," from cast (v.). In early use especially of dice, hence figurative uses relating to fortune or fate. Meaning "that which is cast" is from c.1550s. Meaning "dash or shade of color" is from c.1600. The sense of "a throw" carried an idea of "the form the thing takes after it has been thrown," which led to widespread and varied meanings, such as "group of actors in a play" (1630s). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. Many of the figurative senses converged in a general meaning "sort, kind, style" (mid-17c.). A cast in the eye (early 14c.) preserves the older verbal sense of "warp, turn."

As in compute : verb calculate, estimate
As in count : verb add, check in order

Example sentences :

And Miss Miggs cast up her eyes to signify where that might be.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Humboldt says that they were cast up from subterranean sources.
Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort

“Now cast up these figures,” and he handed him a long account.
Extract from : « Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs » by William H. G. Kingston

I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835.
Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan

The surf might perhaps have cast up some fragment of the wreck.
Extract from : « Godfrey Morgan » by Jules Verne

And was it for her to cast up to me if I was a bit overtaken?
Extract from : « The Carbonels » by Charlotte M. Yonge

It will take England some years to cast up the amount of her losses.
Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor

For he said to Solly, “One of these days they will find him cast up on the shore.”
Extract from : « Nic Revel » by George Manville Fenn

Before my cousin went, we cast up our gains and settled our shares.
Extract from : « The Caxtons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When the old man saw Robin, he cast up his hands, and thanked God.
Extract from : « Robin Tremayne » by Emily Sarah Holt

Synonyms for cast up

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