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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)

  1. (transitive) To wash something onto the shore.
  2. 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.
  3. (transitive) To bring up as a reproach.

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