Cause and Yield

Cause

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

Usage example: the ice storm caused a massive power outage

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

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

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

Usage example: the sort of embarrassing question that seldom yields an honest answer

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Cause and yield are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Yield".

Nearby Words: yielding, yielded

right	right cause	right yield
likely	likely cause	likely yield
entire	entire cause	entire yield
potential	potential cause	potential yield
Other adjectives: greater, larger, higher, biggest.

amount	cause amount	yield amount
effect	cause effect	yield effect
time	cause time	yield time
game	cause game	yield game
Other words: effects, damage, nothing, issues, amounts.

In The Fifth Element, the big dark planet of evil is attacked by a fleet with several salvos of multimegaton yield missiles, which only cause it to grow larger.

Source: Attack Backfire
They never stop to consider using something else in their arsenal that's a bit more powerful than a rifle, but won't cause as much collateral damage as a tactical-yield nuclear bomb.

Source: Nuke 'em
Hitting your partner also has a tendency to cause them to attack you, meaning you have to yield to them to get them to stop.

Source: Annoying Video Game Helper

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