Definition of "cast down" [cast down]

• Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There was no father beside him now to freeze him into hostility, and no need to be wary of those who were glad to accept him among them; but still there was a rigidity about him, and he stood with eyes cast down and hands tightly clasped, perhaps over-awed by the step he was taking."
• "The rabbi sighed, cast down his eyes, and argued, that said Avremel was not simply “an Avremel,” but a “veritable jewel,” a profound Lamdan, a noble-hearted man, destined to become great in Israel."
• "They were fighting Korlisians along the coast, and many of the warriors on both sides now cast down their weapons and began to weep."