case

I

n.

legal action

argument

1) to hear, try a case (the court will not hear this case)

2) to argue, plead a case (the lawyer argued the case skillfully)

3) to make (out), present, state; take a case (she made out a good case for her client; the president took his case to the people)

4) to lose; win a case

5) to decide; settle a case (they settled the case out of court)

6) to rest one's case ('to cease introducing evidence') (the defense lawyer rested her case)

7) to dismiss, throw out a case (the judge dismissed the case)

8) an airtight, ironclad, open-and-shut, watertight; clear; strong; weak case

9) a civil; criminal; pending; test case

10) a case goes to trial

11) a case against (we had an airtight case against him)

12) (misc.) to have a good case ('to have a convincing argument') (often ironic)

crime, felony

13) to break, crack, solve a case (the detective broke the case)

14) to investigate, work on a case (the police worked on the case for a year)

instance, occurrence, example

15) to cite a case

16) an attested; authenticated; borderline; celebrated; clear; flagrant; hypothetical; isolated, rare; open-and-shut ('easily settled'); similar; special case

17) (med.) an acute; advanced; chronic; hopeless; lingering; mild; terminal case

18) to be the case ('to be so')

19) in a certain case (in this case; in any case; in case of emergency)

20) a case in point ('a pertinent case')

inflectional form

21) to govern, take a case (certain Russian verbs take the dative case)

22) the ablative; accusative; dative; genitive; instrumental; locative; oblique; prepositional; vocative case

misc.

23) a basket case ('smb. without arms or legs or who is in a completely hopeless situation'); as the case may be

II

n.

container

cover

an attaché; display; jewelry; packing; pillow; watch case

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[keɪs]

accusative

advanced

as the case may be

authenticated

borderline

celebrated

chronic

clear

crack

criminal

dative

display

flagrant

genitive

hopeless

hypothetical

instrumental

ironclad

isolated

jewelry

lingering

locative

mild

oblique

packing

pending

pillow

prepositional

present

rare

similar

special case

state

strong

terminal case

test case

vocative case

watch case

watertight

weak case

win a case

open-and-shut ('easily settled')

take a case (certain Russian verbs take the dative case)

try a case (the court will not hear this case)

solve a case (the detective broke the case)

throw out a case (the judge dismissed the case)

plead a case (the lawyer argued the case skillfully)

work on a case (the police worked on the case for a year)

settle a case (they settled the case out of court)

(med.) an acute

['container'] ['cover'] an attache

['crime, felony'] to break

['inflectional form'] to govern

['instance, occurrence, example'] to cite a case

['legal action'] ['argument'] to hear

a civil

a case goes to trial

an airtight

an attested

the ablative

to argue

to decide

to dismiss

to investigate

to lose

a case in point ('a pertinent case')

['misc. '] a basket case ('smb. without arms or legs or who is in a completely hopeless situation')

to be the case ('to be so')

in a certain case (in this case; in any case; in case of emergency)

(misc.) to have a good case (often ironic; 'to have a convincing argument')

to make (out)

to rest one's case (the defense lawyer rested her case; 'to cease introducing evidence')

a case against (we had an airtight case against him)