cast doubt on

cast doubt on something

to cause uncertainty about something New DNA evidence has cast doubt on the guilty verdict.

cast doubt on

Cause something or someone to be questioned. For example, The prosecutor cast doubt on the wife's alibi. This idiom uses cast in the sense of "throw," a usage dating from the early 1200s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Styliani	-	Greek
Meurig	-	Welsh
Romana	-	Italian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Late Roman
Ohannes	-	Armenian
Aram (2)	-	Armenian
Fabiola	fah-BYO-lah (Italian), fah-VYO-lah (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Ancient Roman