cause [ cause ]
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1. A person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition.
Instead, it pointed to soil erosion as being the cause of sea level rise.
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2. Reasonable grounds for doing, thinking, or feeling something.
class size is a cause for complaint in some schools
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3. A principle, aim, or movement to which one is committed and which one is prepared to defend or advocate.
How this is supposed to help her cause is less obvious.
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4. A matter to be resolved in a court of law.
Another possibility is to make them costs in the cause in the Supreme Court.
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5. An individual's case offered at law.
His underlying common law cause of action arose on the date of his injury in December 1996.
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1. Make (something, especially something bad) happen.
this disease can cause blindness
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1. A person who is dissatisfied with society but does not have a specific aim to fight for.
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1. Middle English from Old French, from Latin causa (noun), causare (verb).

