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Definition of Induce
Induce

To lead in; to introduce.

To draw on; to overspread.

To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.

To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

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.

To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

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Induce Quotations

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
Aldrich Ames

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Lorna Luft

Induce Translations

induce in Danish is slutte
induce in Dutch is besluiten, afleiden, concluderen
induce in French is induis, induisons, induisent, induissez, induire
induce in German is veranlassen, induzieren, veranlassen, bewegen
induce in Italian is provocare
induce in Latin is induco, adduco, induco indux inductum
induce in Portuguese is induza
induce in Spanish is inducir


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