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uncause

uncause verb: to revert or undo the causing of an act or action.

Verb (1)

uncause (third-person singular simple present uncauses, present participle uncausing, simple past and past participle uncaused)

  1. (transitive) To revert or undo the causing of an act or action
    • The truth is simply this: that which causes marriage also uncauses it.1909, Lionel Josaphare, The World of Suckers, page 75
    • Does the new soul, by itself, “cause” the conception? Can I then not uncause it?1987, K. B. Welton, Abortion is Not a Sin

Verb (2)

uncause (third-person singular simple present uncauses, present participle uncausing, simple past and past participle uncaused)

  1. (transitive) To block or withstand the causing of an act or action
    • It is conceptually wrong to assert that a person makes a causal contribution to an act and its consequences when it is already being caused by others, simply because she fails to do some other act to uncause what is in progress.2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences

Noun

uncause (uncountable)

  1. Absence of cause
    • Origin, in the last resort, means uncause. If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning.1979, Mario J. Rizzo, Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium
    • If uncause can enter the business of decision and liberate it from determinacy, its natural locus, we may think, is the origination of the sequels, in a sense more absolute than the mere putting together of ingredients.2016, F. Frowen, G. L. S. Shackle, Business, Time and Thought

Forms of uncause

third-person singular presentuncauses
present participleuncausing
past participleuncaused
pastuncaused

Origin of uncause

From un- (“reverse, undo”) + cause (verb).

From un- (“negative, contrary”) + cause (verb).

From un- + cause (noun).

Questions about uncause

What does uncause mean?
Uncause means to revert or undo the causing of an act or action.
What part of speech is uncause?
Uncause can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of uncause?
The past tense of uncause is uncaused.

Words near uncause in the dictionary

  1. uncaulking
  2. uncaulks
  3. uncausal
  4. uncausally
  5. uncausative
  6. uncause
  7. uncaused
  8. uncausedness
  9. uncauterised
  10. uncauterized
  11. uncautioned

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