Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

  2. (transitive)To cause, bring about, lead to.

    His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.

    dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken

    побужда́тьpobuždátʹ, убежда́тьubeždátʹ, склоня́тьsklonjátʹ

    cause to arise

  3. (transitive)To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).

  4. To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

    induzieren

    produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes

  5. (transitive)To infer by induction.

    reason or establish by induction

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To lead in, bring in, introduce.

  7. (obsolete, transitive)To draw on, place upon.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. I got a makeup-induced rash.

    ruУ меня появилась сыпь от косметики. — Wezel

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  2. Many chemical reactions can be artificially induced.

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  3. Yanni was in a medically induced coma.

  4. The intonation is monotonous and sleep-inducing.

    ruИнтонация однообразна и навевает сон. — Balamax

    deDer Tonfall ist monoton und einschläfernd. — Yorwba

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  5. Nothing could induce him to change his mind.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to cause; persuade; force:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to cause; persuade; force:
to cause, bring about, lead to:
(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state):

Origin

From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere (“lead in, bring in, introduce”)

From Middle English enducen, borrowed from Latin indūcere (“lead in, bring in, introduce”), from in + dūcō (“lead, conduct”). Compare also abduce, adduce, conduce, deduce, produce, reduce etc. Doublet of endue.

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Forms

induces, inducing, induced, induced
Base forminduce · to induce
3rd person singularinduces
Present participleinducing
Past simpleinduced
Past participleinduced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyinduce
he, she, itinduces

Past simpleLesson

all personsinduced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave induced
he, she, ithas induced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill induce

Synonyms

61 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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