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cast up
cast up vb (tr, adverb) 1. (of the sea) to cast ashore2. (Mathematics) to compute (figures or a total)3. to bring up as a reproach against a personcast up
cast up1. To throw or toss someone or something ashore. A noun or pronoun can be used between "cast" and "up." The choppy waters cast me up, coughing and spluttering on the beach. A child must have lost a toy boat in the ocean because the waves just cast up its wreckage.2. To calculate something. The morning after another rather indulgent evening, I decided it was high time for me to cast up my accounts.See also: cast, upcast someone or something up[for the waves] to bring up and deposit someone or something on the shore. The waves cast the wreckage up, and it was found on the shore. The waves cast up the wreckage of a boat.See also: cast, up |