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单词 causative
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
caus•a•tive  (kô′zə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. acting as a cause;
    producing (often fol. by of ):a causative agency; an event causative of war.
  2. Grammarnoting causation. The causative form of to fall is to fell. Gothic -jan is a causative suffix in fulljan "to cause to be full;
    to fill.''

n. 
  1. Grammara word, esp. a verb, noting causation, as made in He made me eat the apple.
  • Latin causātīvus, equivalent. to causāt(us) caused (see causation) + -īvus -ive
  • late Middle English 1375–1425
caus′a•tive•ly, adv. 
caus′a•tive•ness, caus′a•tiv′i•ty, n. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
causative /ˈkɔːzətɪv/ adj
  1. relating to a form or class of verbs, such as persuade, that express causation
  2. (often postpositive) and followed by of: producing an effect
 n
  1. the causative form or class of verbs

ˈcausatively adv
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