: a cause that sets in motion a sequence of events uninterrupted by any superseding causes and that results in a usually foreseeable effect (as an injury) which would not otherwise have occurred

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The cause of an event, usually a bad event, is the thing that makes it happen. The causes are a complex blend of local and national tensions. To cause something, usually something bad, …

An additional patient-blaming tactic is to ascribe psychological causes as the source of pain.

You can say that something causes someone to do something. A blow to the head had caused him to lose consciousness. The experience had caused her to be distrustful of people. Don't …

His symptoms had no apparent physical causes. She is the cause of all their problems. He died of/from natural causes. [=he died because of old age or an illness]

A cause makes an effect, and you're likely to hear the phrase " cause and effect" when people are trying to analyze how things happen. Cause can also mean something worth fighting for — like …

Definition of cause noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] cause (of something) the person or thing that makes something happen. Unemployment is a major …

Derived forms: caused, causing, causes Type of: act, create, inception, justification, legal proceeding, make, move, origin, origination, physical entity, proceeding, proceedings, venture

cause /kɔz/ n., v., caused, caus•ing. n. [countable] a person that acts or a thing that occurs so as to produce a specific result: What was the cause of the accident? [uncountable] the reason or …