Definition, synonyms and related words
simple past tense and past participle of cause
"The sudden rain caused the picnic to be cancelled immediately."
In plain English: Caused means to make something happen or be the reason it occurred.
"The heavy rain caused the river to overflow."
Usage: Use caused to describe an action or event that directly made something else happen in the past. It connects a specific agent or circumstance to its resulting effect, such as saying rain caused flooding.
Derived from Old French causé, which comes from the Latin verb causari meaning "to cause." It entered English in the 14th century with the original sense of bringing about or producing an effect.