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• “cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally“
• “cause a commotion“
• “make a stir“
• “cause an accident“

Synonyms

• do an uproarious party ; the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization ; doctor’s degree in osteopathy ; engage in; carry out or perform an action; get (something) done; proceed or get along; give rise to; carry out or practice; be sufficient; create or design, often in a certain way; behave in a certain manner; spend time in prison or in a labor camp; carry on or function; arrange attractively; travel or traverse (a distance)
• make a recognizable kind; the act of mixing cards haphazardly ; engage in; give certain properties to something; make or cause to be or to become; cause to do; give rise to; create or manufacture a man-made product; make, formulate, or derive in the mind; compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; create by artistic means; earn on some commercial or business transaction; create or design, often in a certain way; to compose or represent; reach a goal; be or be capable of being changed or made into; make by shaping or bringing together constituents; perform or carry out; make by combining materials and parts; change from one form into another; act in a certain way so as to acquire; charge with a function; achieve a point or goal; reach a destination, either real or abstract; institute, enact, or establish; carry out or commit; form by assembling individuals or constituents; organize or be responsible for; put in order or neaten; head into a specified direction; have a bowel movement; undergo fabrication or creation; be suitable for; add up to; amount to; constitute the essence of; appear to begin an activity; proceed along a path; reach in time; gather and light the materials for; prepare for eating by applying heat; induce to have sex; assure the success of; represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; consider as being; calculate as being; cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; favor the development of; develop into; behave in a certain way; eliminate urine

• “cause to act in a specified manner“
• “The ads induced me to buy a VCR“
• “My children finally got me to buy a computer“
• “My wife made me buy a new sofa“

Synonyms

• induce cause to arise; cause to do; cause to occur rapidly; reason or establish by induction ; produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
• stimulate act as a stimulant; cause to do; stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; cause to be alert and energetic; cause to occur rapidly; stir feelings in; provide the needed stimulus for
• have a person who possesses great material wealth ; have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; have as a feature; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); have ownership or possession of; cause to move; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; have a personal or business relationship with someone; organize or be responsible for; have left; be confronted with; undergo; suffer from; cause to do; receive willingly something given or offered; get something; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); achieve a point or goal; cause to be born; have sex with
• get a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent ; come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; enter or assume a certain state or condition; cause to move; receive a specified treatment (abstract); reach a destination; go or come after and bring or take back; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); take vengeance on or get even; achieve a point or goal; cause to do; succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; communicate with a place or person; give certain properties to something; move into a desired direction of discourse; grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; attract and fix; reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; reach by calculation; acquire as a result of some effort or action; purchase; perceive by hearing; suffer from the receipt of; receive as a retribution or punishment; leave immediately; reach and board; irritate; evoke an emotional response; apprehend and reproduce accurately; earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; overcome or destroy; be a mystery or bewildering to; take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); make (offspring) by reproduction
• make a recognizable kind; the act of mixing cards haphazardly ; engage in; give certain properties to something; make or cause to be or to become; cause to do; give rise to; create or manufacture a man-made product; make, formulate, or derive in the mind; compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; create by artistic means; earn on some commercial or business transaction; create or design, often in a certain way; to compose or represent; reach a goal; be or be capable of being changed or made into; make by shaping or bringing together constituents; perform or carry out; make by combining materials and parts; change from one form into another; act in a certain way so as to acquire; charge with a function; achieve a point or goal; reach a destination, either real or abstract; institute, enact, or establish; carry out or commit; form by assembling individuals or constituents; organize or be responsible for; put in order or neaten; head into a specified direction; have a bowel movement; undergo fabrication or creation; be suitable for; add up to; amount to; constitute the essence of; appear to begin an activity; proceed along a path; reach in time; gather and light the materials for; prepare for eating by applying heat; induce to have sex; assure the success of; represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; consider as being; calculate as being; cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; favor the development of; develop into; behave in a certain way; eliminate urine

• “they are trying to determine the cause of the crash“

• “he had no cause to complain“
• “they had good reason to rejoice“

Synonyms

• reason decide by reasoning; present reasons and arguments ; think logically; a rational motive for a belief or action; an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; the state of having good sense and sound judgment; a justification for something existing or happening; a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
• grounds your basis for belief or disbelief; the enclosed land around a house or other building; a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) ; a justification for something existing or happening; dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue

• “he supported populist campaigns“
• “they worked in the cause of world peace“
• “the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant“
• “the movement to end slavery“
• “contributed to the war effort“

Synonyms

• campaign run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; go on a campaign; a race between candidates for elective office; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) ; an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
• crusade exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; go on a crusade; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
• drive the act of applying force to propel something; a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; a road leading up to a private house; the trait of being highly motivated; hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; the act of driving a herd of animals overland ; a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire ; (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium ; a wide scenic road planted with trees; (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) ; operate or control a vehicle; travel or be transported in a vehicle; cause someone or something to move by driving; force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; cause to move back by force or influence; compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; push, propel, or press with force; cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; strive and make an effort to reach a goal; move into a desired direction of discourse; have certain properties when driven; work as a driver; move by being propelled by a force; urge forward; proceed along in a vehicle; strike with a driver, as in teeing off; hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; excavate horizontally; cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; (hunting) search for game; (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
• movement a change of position that does not entail a change of location; the act of changing location from one place to another; a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something ; a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; a euphemism for defecation; a general tendency to change (as of opinion); the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); the act of changing the location of something
• effort earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; use of physical or mental energy; a notable achievement; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

Synonyms

• causal agent any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
• causal agency any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

• “the family brought suit against the landlord“

Synonyms

• lawsuit a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
• suit be agreeable or acceptable to; be agreeable or acceptable; accord or comport with; enhance the appearance of; a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; a man’s courting of a woman; a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank ; playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack
• case look over, usually with the intention to rob; enclose in, or as if in, a case; an occurrence of something; a special set of circumstances; a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; the actual state of things; a portable container for carrying several objects; a person requiring professional services; a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; a problem requiring investigation; a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; the quantity contained in a case ; nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence ; a specific state of mind that is temporary; a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); a specific size and style of type within a type family ; an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part ; the housing or outer covering of something; the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
• causa a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy