recast Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cast again, in a different role
    • He was recast as Iago
  2. verb cast again
    remould; remold.
    • The bell cracked and had to be recast
  3. verb cast or model anew
    reforge; remodel.
    • She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state

WordNet

Re*cast" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To throw again. Florio.
  2. To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new from a shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
  3. To compute, or cast up, a second time.

Webster 1913