induce
/ɪnˈduːs/ verb C2- To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
- To cause, bring about, lead to. · His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.
- To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
- To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
- To infer by induction.
He/she/it induces · Past induced · Past participle induced · -ing form inducing
Verb forms
- Base form
- induce
- He/she/it
- induces
- Past
- induced
- Past participle
- induced
- -ing form
- inducing
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“I know nothing for certain; only I have seen things which induce me to believe, as I told you, that the future captain will find some annoyance in the vicinity of the Vieilles Infirmeries.”
ON A SUMMER DAY, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink.
He argued that it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed them.
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
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