1 [VNtoinf] (formal) to persuade or influence sb to do sth:
Nothing would induce me to take the job.
2 [VN] (formal) to cause sth:
drugs which induce sleep * a drug-induced coma
3 [VN] (medical) to make a woman start giving birth to her baby by giving her special drugs:
an induced labour * We'll have to induce her.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for induce is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is induce a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, induce is tagged as verb.
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