Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb case

2 senses of case

Sense 1
case -- (look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed")
       => inspect -- (look over carefully; "Please inspect your father's will carefully")

Sense 2
encase, incase, case -- (enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud")
       => enclose, close in, inclose, shut in -- (surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence")

Antonyms of adj cased

2 senses of cased

Sense 1
cased, encased, incased -- (covered or protected with or as if with a case; "knights cased in steel"; "products encased in leatherette")

INDIRECT (VIA sheathed) -> unsheathed, bare -- (not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade")

Sense 2
cased -- (enclosed in a case)

INDIRECT (VIA bound) -> unbound -- (not secured within a cover; "an unbound book")

Similarity of adj cased

2 senses of cased

Sense 1
cased, encased, incased -- (covered or protected with or as if with a case; "knights cased in steel"; "products encased in leatherette")
       => sheathed (vs. unsheathed) -- (enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed")

Sense 2
cased -- (enclosed in a case)
       => bound (vs. unbound) -- (secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form; "bound volumes"; "leather-bound volumes")