induce
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
induce (induces, present participle inducing; past and past participle induced)
- (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
- His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.
- (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
- (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon.
- (lead by persuasion or influence) entice, inveigle, put someone up to something
- (to cause) bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provoke
- (logic) deduce
- French: induire
- German: dazu bringen, anstacheln
- Portuguese: induzir
- Russian: побужда́ть
- Spanish: inducir
- German: bewirken, verursachen, hervorrufen, führen zu
- German: induzieren
- Spanish: inducir
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