1Give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it.

1. 1.1 Present or organize in a different form or style.
   his doctoral thesis has been recast for the general reader

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I will now consider how the Promethean myth is recast in terms of modernity in the story of Frankenstein and the issues regarding male power this raises.
   • Sometime in the past generation or so, constitutional history was recast - turned on its head, really - as a story of judicial triumphalism.
   • Troy recasts the story as an adamantly human-scale and all-too-familiar drama full of lust, revenge and valour.
   • It jettisons the Femme Fatale, and recasts the role as a vulnerable, damaged, perpetually on-edge woman who is never in control.
   • Our corrections are based on recasting the integral equations into a hierarchy of simpler integral equations that can be solved analytically.
   • I won't spoil what happens on Kane's return home (although some rock fans may be aware), but it recasts everything that came before in a different light.
   • The enthusiastic response convinced the Milanese Opera Board to recast La Scala as a classical company of international stature.
   • A recent major work by a distinguished journalist-historian on the Revolution recasts it as ‘a struggle for power’, blending the older explanations of Andrews and Beard while giving almost no attention to ideology.
   • Indeed, her loyalty is soon recast as selfless martyrdom.
   • Sir Steven may well be the prototype of the modern revisionist historian who seeks to recast the history of Western civilization as a catalogue of abuses.
   • In fact, there's an important kind of creativity based on reorganizing, recasting and repositioning existing ideas and materials in new and unexpected ways that let us see new connections and see with ‘new eyes.’
   • The Algerian experience led the French government to recast its African presence in terms of a new political role.
   • For some reason, writer-director George Daugherty chose to remove Peter and the Wolf from its Russian origins and recast it in a vaguely Swiss, northern European setting.
   • It was a knowledge that would allow him to impose a true revolution upon the generals and to recast the entire structure of the armed forces.
   • Before his present comical manoeuvrings, he had made a series of thoughtful speeches on how Britishness could be recast for modern times, an issue of importance to unionists in every part of the UK.
   • Advances in information technology, such as the Internet, have created unprecedented opportunities for organizations to recast their relationships with constituents.
   • More than £40 million has been spent recasting a former steel foundry into a hi-tech adventure playground fit for the 21st century.
   • It was Aeschylus who recast him as suffering hero and enemy of divine tyranny, crucified on a crag in the Caucasus where Zeus's eagle tore at his vitals.
   • It's as if the screenwriters have gone through the Gospels with a blue pencil, trying to recast the words so that we (the dummies in the audience) can accept them.
   • Sartori's thesis is interesting for theoretical reasons because it recasts the literature on extended deterrence.
   • The key factor is how Iran and Russia transform their economies and recast their political orientations under the pressure of increasing globalization and economic interdependence.
   • And the demographics of the local population were recast - middle-class whites moved out and were replaced by lower-income Hispanic families.

   Synonyms

   change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, reorganization, restructuring, rearrangement, recasting, remodelling, renovation, restyling, variation

2Allocate the parts in (a play or film) to different actors.