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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Verb
induce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)
- (transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- Synonyms: entice, inveigle, put someone up to something
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
- (transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
- Synonyms: bring about, instigate, prompt, stimulate, trigger, provoke; see also Thesaurus:incite
His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.
- (transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.
- (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:The scientific instruments of the day recorded rapid fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, as powerful electrical currents flowed through the upper atmosphere. Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines.
- (transitive, logic) To infer by induction.
- Antonym: deduce
- (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
to cause; persuade; force
- Arabic: حَرَّض (ḥarraḍ), حَثَّ (ḥaṯṯa)
- Asturian: inducir
- Bulgarian: убеждавам (bg) (ubeždavam), накарвам (bg) (nakarvam)
- Catalan: induir (ca)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: opwekken (nl), veroorzaken (nl), overhalen (nl), forceren (nl), bewerkstelligen (nl)
- Finnish: aiheuttaa (fi), aikaansaada (fi), houkutella (fi)
- French: induire (fr)
- Galician: inducir (gl)
- German: dazu bringen, anstacheln (de)
- Hungarian: okoz (hu), létrehoz (hu), előidéz (hu), kelt (hu), (persuade) rávesz (hu), (persuade) rábír (hu)
- Ido: induktar (io)
- Italian: persuadere (it), incitare (it)
- Khmer: បង្ក (km) (bɑŋkɑɑ)
- Latin: induco (la)
- Māori: whakapakepake
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forårsake (no)
- Occitan: indusir (oc), induir
- Portuguese: induzir (pt)
- Russian: побужда́ть (ru) impf (pobuždátʹ), убежда́ть (ru) impf (ubeždátʹ), склоня́ть (ru) impf (sklonjátʹ), заставля́ть (ru) impf (zastavljátʹ)
- Slovak: vyvolať, indukovať
- Spanish: inducir (es)
- Welsh: peri (cy), cymell (cy)
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to cause, bring about, lead to (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “induce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “induce”, in OED Online
 , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
induce
- inflection of inducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Verb
induce
- third-person singular present indicative of indurre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
indūce
- second-person singular present active imperative of indūcō
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin indūcere, with senses based off French induire. First attested in 1875.
Pronunciation
Verb
a induce (third-person singular present induce, past participle indus, third-person subjunctive inducă) 3rd conjugation
- (transitive, literary) to induce, incite, cause or push to do something
- a induce în eroare ― to mislead
- (transitive, literary) to induce (bring about, cause)
- (logic) to induce (infer by induction)
- (transitive, physics) to induce (produce by induction)
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Spanish
Verb
induce
- inflection of inducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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