Definition of cause

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Cause (n.) To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb..

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Boast :: Boast (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation..
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..
Anhydride :: Anhydride (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water..
Generator :: Generator (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces..
Care :: Care (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Cyanotic :: Cyanotic (a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin..
Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind..
Diurna :: Diurna (n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime..
Glue :: Glue (n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten..
Exhale :: Exhale (v. t.) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth..
Surface :: Surface (v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain..
Rue :: Rue (v. t.) To cause to grieve; to afflict.
Blunder :: Blunder (v. t.) To cause to blunder.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..
Counterchange :: Counterchange (v. t.) To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
Actor :: Actor (n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
Melampyrite :: Melampyrite (n.) The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
Sist :: Sist (v. t.) To cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court..
Laminate :: Laminate (v. t.) To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
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