Synonyms of occasioning

occasioning

verb

present participle of occasion

as in causing

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

the announcement concerning the change in scheduling occasioned much confusion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• causing
• creating
• prompting
• generating
• bringing
• producing
• spawning
• doing
• inducing
• effecting
• yielding
• making
• working
• invoking
• engendering
• catalyzing
• resulting (in)
• bringing about
• effectuating
• begetting
• giving rise to
• drawing on
• breeding
• translating (into)
• introducing
• encouraging
• promoting
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• initiating
• inaugurating
• contributing (to)
• beginning
• determining
• establishing
• launching
• furthering
• instituting
• developing
• founding
• fostering
• pioneering
• deciding
• starting
• enacting
• rendering
• forwarding
• cultivating
• advancing
• conducing (to)
• setting up
• setting
• nurturing
• fathering
• turning out
• innovating
• nourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• crushing
• suppressing
• stifling
• controlling
• quelling
• quashing
• subduing
• repressing
• restraining
• inhibiting
• retarding
• smothering
• checking
• curbing
• dampening
• arresting
• putting down
• killing
• squelching
• squashing
• destroying
• extinguishing
• cracking down (on)
• abolishing
• quenching
• clamping down (on)
• demolishing
• liquidating
• reining (in)
• canning
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of occasioning

Apple’s software is also the source of on-and-off griping, with last year’s Liquid Glass redesign occasioning some particularly harsh criticism. — ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026

He was found guilty in January of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 27 Mar. 2026

Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, was sentenced at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, after he was found guilty in January of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, British news agency PA Media reported. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026

Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton has been remanded in custody after being charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026

She was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death, fail to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing death and driving a motor vehicle with a disqualified license, stated the NSW release. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025