Cause and Hit

Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Hit and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hit" instead a verb "Cause".

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

Hit verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.

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Cause and hit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Hit".

Nearby Word: hitting

known	known cause	known hit
old	old cause	old hit
good	good cause	good hit
physical	physical cause	physical hit
Other adjectives: direct, original, initial, proper, single, actual, real, big, great, serious, huge, bad, new, major, immediate, sole, biggest.

First, Saitama destroys a meteor that would've completely and utterly annihilated at least Z-City and quite possibly a lot more but the pieces still hit and cause a lot of destruction.

Source: Ungrateful Bastard
That means that the fantastic ability to kill all enemies in one hit may instead hit your own party and cause instant game over.

Source: Video Game / Shadow Hearts aka: Shadow Hearts Covenant
Scoring a direct hit on a suspect with it will cause completely voluntary compliance on the suspect's part, instead of the incapacitation or death which it would likely cause in reality.

Source: Video Game / SWAT 4

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