Causative verb

A causative verb is a verb with an argument that expresses the cause of the action described by the verb.

Examples
In (i)-(iii) let, make, and cause are causative verbs; John refers to the cause of Bill's eating grass.

(i)  John let Bill eat grass (ii) John made Bill eat grass (iii) John caused Bill to eat grass

Comments
A certain class of verbs alternate between a causative reading and an inchoative reading. Examples are break, drown and De-adjectival verbs formed with the suffix -en in (iv) - (vii).

INCHOATIVE   	     	CAUSATIVE (iv) The vase broke		John broke the vase (v)  The lady drowned		Our tenant drowned a lady (vi) The canal widened	        They widened the canal (vii) The tomatoes reddened	The sun reddened the tomatoes

Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics