Word Meanings - INDUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. To lead in; to introduce. The

Additional info about word: INDUCE

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. (more info) 1. To lead in; to introduce. The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope. 2. To draw on; to overspread. Cowper. 3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence. Shak. He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. Paley. Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. Dryden. 4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure. Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDUCE)

• Actuate
• Urge
• instigate
• stir
• induce
• influence
• incline
• dispose
• incite
• impel
• prompt
• drive
• Attract
• Influence
• tempt
• allure
• charm
• fascinate
• invite
• entice
• Bring
• Fetch
• procure
• convey
• carry
• bear
• adduce
• import
• produce
• cause
• Draw
• Drag
• pull
• attract
• haul
• inhale
• sketch
• delineate
• describe
• Entail
• Bequeath
• leave
• devolve
• demise
• involve
• necessitate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INDUCE)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to INDUCE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.