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1. Cause to arise
   "induce a crisis";
   - bring on
    
2. Make someone or something act in a particular way or do a particular thing
   "The ads induced me to buy a VCR";
   - stimulate, cause, have, get, make
    
3. Cause to occur rapidly
   - stimulate, rush, hasten, accelerate, speed up
    
4. (logic) reason or establish by induction
    
5. (physics) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
   - induct

Derived forms: inducing, induces, induced

Type of: bring about, bring forth, conclude, effect, effectuate, generate, give rise, produce, reason, reason out, set up

Encyclopedia: Induce