induce

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 9.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.
2. verb To cause, bring about, lead to.

   His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep.

3. verb To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).
4. verb To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.
5. verb To infer by induction.
6. verb To lead in, bring in, introduce.
7. verb To draw on, place upon. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

bring on get have make cause stimulate hasten rush influence persuade

Often followed by

the a him them me an her us you in

Word family

induced induces inducing induction