deduce

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 1.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
2. verb To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
3. verb To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
4. verb To be derived or obtained from some source.
5. verb To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).

   to deduce a part from the whole

6. verb To lead (something) forth.

Similar words

infer derive deduct imply assume claim offset gather conclude subtract

Often followed by

the from that a what it an their this all

Word family

deduced deduces deducible deducing deduction deductions