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showed cause

showed cause is the simple past of show cause.

Meaning of show cause

Verb

show cause (third-person singular simple present shows cause, present participle showing cause, simple past showed cause, past participle shown cause)

  1. (England, Wales) In English law, to argue against the confirmation of a provisional order or judgment.

Questions about showed cause

What is showed cause the simple past of?
Showed cause is the simple past of show cause.

Words near showed cause in the dictionary

  1. showed a clean pair of heels
  2. showed a leg
  3. showed ankle
  4. showed around
  5. showed away
  6. showed cause
  7. showed colour
  8. showed down
  9. showed forth
  10. showed in
  11. showed off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: showed cause (page history and authors); show cause (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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