The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word REASON
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More clues leading to the result REASON
- Think about a child
- Conclude sappers like working
- Grounds crossed by areas once
- Think logically with reference to a male child
- Ground a child after reprieve on vacation
- Studies dismissing Democrat regarding intellect
- Argue concerning a member of the family
- Sense change so near
- Sanity is concerning a family member
- Serious crime: head denied motive
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What does REASON mean?
REASON noun- A cause:
- Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
- Ratio; proportion.
- To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
- To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
- To converse; to compare opinions.
- To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- To support with reasons, as a request.
- To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.