recast








verb (used with object), re·cast, re·cast·ing.

  1. to cast again or anew.
  2. to form, fashion, or arrange again.
  3. to remodel or reconstruct (a literary work, document, sentence, etc.).
  4. to supply (a theater or opera work) with a new cast.

noun

  1. a recasting.
  2. a new form produced by recasting.

verb -casts, -casting or -cast (tr)

  1. (often foll by as) to give (someone or something) a new role, function, or characterrecast themselves as moderate and kind
  2. (often foll by as) to cast (an actor or actress) again or in a different part
  3. to cast new actors or actresses for a production of (a play, film, etc)
v.

c.1600, from re- + cast (v.). Of literary works and other writing, from 1790. Theater sense is from 1951.

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