Cause and Help

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Help and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead the word "Cause" as a noun or a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Help noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Cause and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead the word "Help" as a noun or a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

human	human cause	human help
good	good cause	good help
physical	physical cause	physical help
direct	direct cause	direct help
Other adjectives: proper, likely, actual, real, big, great, serious, huge, little, supernatural, new, major, immediate, possible, indirect, less, external, medical.

This in turn can lend strength to those who follow their cause and help fight despair.

Source: The Fettered
He didn't plan it from the very start of the series, but as things get worse and his actions cause or help cause countless deaths, he has a My God, What Have I Done?

Source: The Hero Dies
Fringe seems to take a stance of science being both bad and good, since its used to both cause and help solve the Freaky Mystery of the Week!

Source: Science Is Bad

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