CAUSE
Definition:
- [noun] events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash"
- [noun] a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
Synonyms: reason, grounds
- [noun] a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "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, crusade, drive, movement, effort
- [noun] any entity that causes events to happen
Synonyms: causal agent, causal agency
- [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, case, causa
- [verb] give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
Synonyms: do, make
- [verb] cause to do; 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, stimulate, have, get, make
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Related Words:
- determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate
- initiate, pioneer
- effect, effectuate, bring about, set up
- make
- occasion
- provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up
- engender, breed, spawn
- motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite
- impel, force
- facilitate
- decide
- persuade
- bring
- solicit
- encourage
- let
- lead
- prompt, inspire, instigate
- suborn
- compel, oblige, obligate
- antecedent
- etiology, aetiology
- factor
- producer
- mutagenesis
- advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz
- anti-war movement
- consumerism
- campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign
- ecumenical movement
- fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort
- feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib
- gay liberation movement, gay lib
- lost cause
- reform
- war
- youth movement, youth crusade
- person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
- agent
- nature
- supernatural, occult
- first cause, prime mover, primum mobile
- Destiny, Fate
- catalyst
- deus ex machina
- operator, manipulator
- power, force
- vital principle, life principle
- engine
- cause of death, killer
- danger
- agent
- civil suit
- class action, class-action suit
- countersuit
- criminal suit
- moot
- paternity suit, bastardy proceeding
