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CASE

Definition:

1. [noun] a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"
   Synonyms: lawsuit, suit, cause, causa
   
   
2. [noun] an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
   Synonyms: instance, example
   
   
3. [noun] a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
   Synonyms: event
   
   
4. [noun] a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
   
   
5. [noun] the actual state of things; "that was not the case"
   
   
6. [noun] a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly"
   
   
7. [noun] a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
   
   
8. [noun] a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
   Synonyms: subject, guinea pig
   
   
9. [noun] a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
   
   
10. [noun] the quantity contained in a case
    Synonyms: ful
    
    
11. [noun] a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
    Synonyms: display show
    
    
12. [noun] a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters"
    
    
13. [noun] nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
    Synonyms: grammatical
    
    
14. [noun] the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"
    Synonyms: shell, casing
    
    
15. [noun] a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
    Synonyms: character, eccentric, type
    
    
16. [noun] an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
    Synonyms: sheath
    
    
17. [noun] the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"
    Synonyms: casing
    
    
18. [noun] bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
    Synonyms: pillowslip, pillow slip
    
    
19. [verb] look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed"
    
    
20. [verb] enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"
    Synonyms: enin
    
    

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Related Words:

• pack
• box, package
• sack
• crate
• civil suit
• class action, class-action suit
• countersuit
• criminal suit
• moot
• paternity suit, bastardy proceeding
• humiliation, mortification
• piece, bit
• time, clip
• baggage, luggage
• briefcase
• cardcase
• cigarette case
• compact, powder compact
• dispatch case, dispatch box
• glasses case
• gun case
• kit
• letter case
• locket
• pillbox
• portfolio
• quiver
• shoe
• sleeve
• wallet, billfold, notecase, pocketbook
• watch case
• writing desk
• client
• patient
• welfare case, charity case
• trophy case
• nominative, nominative case, subject case
• oblique, oblique case
• boot
• gearbox, gear case
• jacket
• theca
• lorica
• medullary sheath, myelin sheath
• neurolemma, neurilemma
• husk

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