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uncause en · VERB · etymology 1

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

(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:

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uncauses	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
uncaused	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
uncaused	Tense=Past	lexicographic
uncausing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

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

(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:

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uncaused	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
uncaused	Tense=Past	lexicographic
uncauses	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
uncausing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

From un- + cause (noun).

(uncountable) Absence of cause
- 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:
- 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: