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The Meaning of induce

  • (v. t.) To lead in; to introduce.
  • (v. t.) To draw on; to overspread.
  • (v. t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
  • (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.
  • (v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
  • (v. t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

Synonyms

get , hasten , induct , rush , cause , bring out , have , bring on , make , stimulate , produce , pee-pee , take , hit , bring in , construct , mystify , experience , provoke , draw , stool , stupefy , lay down , piddle , hold , become , sustain , ready , pose , piss , receive , constitute , crap , scram , pass water , do , consume , go , sire , drive , engender , get to , shit , fix , pay back , suffer , spend a penny , stick , seduce , make water , set about , bring forth , get down , arrive , name , pretend , cook , fuck off , incur , deliver , wee-wee , gain , make up , contract , excite , grow , attain , dumbfound , beat , start , set out , birth , micturate , realize , create , arrest , accept , develop , shake , give , bring , bewilder , pull in , perk up , form , reach , buzz off , catch , defecate , pee , let , feature , obtain , beget , flummox , wee , ca-ca , arouse , generate , prepare , capture , have got , find , amaze , mother , baffle , take a shit , score , start out , convey , build , vex , give birth , aim , throw , perplex , arrive at , make believe , gravel , begin , relieve oneself , fetch , stir , father , bear , get under one's skin , energise , energize , puddle , take a crap , puzzle , clear , earn , establish , own , nominate , acquire , come , progress to , take a leak , pay off , brace , possess , bugger off , urinate , ingest , take in , work , shake up , realise , nonplus , commence , cannonball along , look sharp , belt along , hurry , expedite , bucket along , speed , step on it , pelt along , race , hie , festinate , hotfoot , rush along , invest , seat , initiate , allure , drag , haul , lure , tow , attract , entice , incline , lead , pull , tug

Antonyms

alienate , estrange , rebuff , reject , repel , repulse

Rhymes

abstruse , abuse , asmus , boose , bruce , caboose , chartreuse , cheuse , coos , cruce , cuisse , damoose , deduce , derousse , deuce , deuss , diffuse , disabuse , disuse , doose , douce , druce , duce , ekeus , excuse , footloose , goose , hoose , introduce , juice , labouisse , lajous , loose , luce , misuse , moose , mousse , noose , nous , obtuse , overproduce , prepuce , preuss , produce , profuse , recluse , reduce , reintroduce , reproduce , reuse , ruess , seduce , seuss , sluice , spruce , truce , tyus , use , vanhoose , yous , zeus