uncause

present singular third person uncauses · participle present uncausing · participle past uncaused · past uncaused

1. transitiveTo 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

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   Does the new soul, by itself, “cause” the conception? Can I then not uncause it?

   1987, K. B. Welton, Abortion is Not a Sin

present singular third person uncauses · participle present uncausing · participle past uncaused · past uncaused

1. transitiveTo 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

1. uncountableAbsence of cause

   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

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   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