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recast

  • /ɹiːˈkɑːst/
  • /ɹiːˈkæst/
  • /ˈɹiːkɑːst/
  • /ˈɹiːkæst/

Rhymes with -ɑːst, -æst

verb recasts · recasting · recast · recasted

  1. To cast or throw again. the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
  2. To mould again. The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.
  3. To reproduce in a new form. Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts [translating umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
  4. transitive To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors. According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]
  5. transitive To assign (actors) to different roles. She was recast as the villain.

noun recasts

  1. The act or process of recasting.
  2. An utterance translated into another grammatical form. Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.

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Españolrefundir, reformular, reestructurar, recomponer, reelaborar

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@misc{recast_2026,
  title = {recast},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/recast},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}