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cast_up
cast up
English
Verb
cast up (third-person singular simple present casts up, present participle casting up, simple past and past participle cast up)
- (transitive) To wash something onto the shore.
- To compute. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 11
- He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 11
- (transitive) To bring up as a reproach.
Translations
to compute
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