cast around

1. 1.

   search anxiously

   Synonymscast aboutbeat about

   Broaderresearch

Questions about cast around

What does cast around mean?

cast around means "search anxiously".

What is another word for cast around?

Close synonyms include cast about, beat about. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cast around a common word?

cast around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.