inducein‧duce /ɪnˈdjuːs $ ɪnˈduːs/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] 
Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.2 medical to make a woman give birth to her baby, by giving her a special drug: She had to be induced because the baby was four weeks late. The doctor decided to induce labour.3formal to cause a particular physical condition: Patients with eating disorders may use drugs to induce vomiting.drug-induced/stress-induced etc a drug-induced coma
WORD ORIGINinduce
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin inducere, from ducere ‘to lead’VERB TABLE
induce
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | induce |
| he, she, it | induces | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | induced |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have induced |
| he, she, it | has induced | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had induced |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will induce |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have induced |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am inducing |
| he, she, it | is inducing | |
| you, we, they | are inducing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was inducing |
| you, we, they | were inducing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been inducing |
| he, she, it | has been inducing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been inducing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be inducing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been inducing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a stress-induced allergy
- The drug can induce anything from stomach cramps to comas.
Longman Language Activatorto make someone do something
· Sarah's very funny. Her jokes always make me laugh.· The things she said make me wonder if she is in some kind of trouble.· The smell was so bad it almost made me throw up.be made to do something · I was made to wait for over an hour.
to make someone or something do something. Cause is more formal than make: · A dog ran into the road, causing the cyclist to swerve.· The parents' fear of gang activity caused them to move the family to a safer neighborhood.· No-one understands what could have caused her to hate him so much.
to be the thing that makes someone do something, especially when this process takes some time: · What led you to take up teaching as a career?· It was my interest in gardens that led me to study biology.lead somebody to believe: · The negative publicity has already led many to believe that Tompkins is guilty.
if something motivates someone to do something, it makes them want to do it - use this especially to talk about the reasons why people do things that are very good, very bad, or very dangerous: motivate somebody to do something: · I don't know what motivates people to commit such crimes.be motivated by something: · He was motivated by a desire to help his fellow man.· Many in the Asian community feel that the police actions were motivated by racial bias.
formal to make someone choose to do something: · Whatever induced her to buy such an expensive car?· The state advertises a great deal to induce its citizens to buy lottery tickets.
to be the thing that makes you to do something, especially something you have been thinking of doing for some time: · It was reading his book that prompted me to write to him.· What exactly prompted him to call you in the middle of the night?
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The doctor decided to induce labour. a drug-induced comaCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
The doctor decided to induce labour. a drug-induced coma· Each peak induces a cell locally to divide and form a bristle.· When such changes are induced in the germ cells, they may be transmitted to descendants of the irradiated persons.· In addition, there are also indications that this signalling pathway can induce cells to become tumorigenic.· The cytoplasm induces the first cell divisions in the embryo, and determines what course the daughter cells will follow.· An alternative to using interferon itself as an anti-viral drug is to use chemicals that induce cells to make their own interferon.· The enamel comes from the cell sheet and is induced by the cells of the underlying tooth germ.· How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour?
· Endothelin-1 in this range induced mucosal haemorrhagic changes in a dose dependent manner.· Hence retinoic acid does not seem to alter the relative growth and elaboration of rhombomeres, but induces changes in their identity.· Finally, we tested the effects of indomethacin on diet induced protective changes.
· In this way normal healthy people may be tested without inducing any damage in their brain.· Endothelin induced gastric mucosal damage was carried out as described below.· The driving force for inflammation then is a combination of drug and luminal induced mucosal damage.· Dietary replacement of arachidonic acid by eicosapentaenoic acid results in an enhanced resistance to ethanol induced gastric damage.· These results could suggest a prominent role of tissue type plasminogen activator in the pathogenesis of endothelin induced gastric mucosal damage.
· Sigsworth was given a drug which would normally induce prolonged unconsciousness but it had no effect on him.· The driving force for inflammation then is a combination of drug and luminal induced mucosal damage.· But particular abnormalities in biochemistry have been linked to schizophrenia since it was first discovered that hallucinatory drugs could induce a psychosis.
· In addition we have also investigated the involvement of platelet activating factor in the endothelin induced fibrinolytic activation.· There may have been another factor that induced these creatures to leave the ground.· These results suggest the involvement of platelet activating factor in the endothelin induced fibrinolytic activation and subsequently developed mucosal haemorrhagic lesion.
· The consultant at first attempted to induce labour but discontinued it.
· The simultaneous administration of two treatments makes it difficult to differentiate which induced the response.· Since you are trying to induce intense nausea responses in your clients, you may be concerned that they may actually vomit.· Thus a balance of forces can result from a weakened infection which induces a weakened immune response, leading to persistence.
· In experimental animals cholera toxin induces marked secretion of fluid and electrolytes.
· This induces a sense of compliance. 2.· The recollection induced in Converse a sense of utter despair which he found soothing.· The identification of apparent patterning amongst types and sub-groups of ornamental metalwork can easily induce a false sense of satisfaction.· All such experiences induce a sense of unreality in the employee.
· I feel that they may also have been used to help induce altered states of consciousness.· Once they had done this, they used breathing and rhythmic rattling to induce trance states.· Moreover, the person responsible for inducing this state is likely to be held at least partially liable if misfortune does occur.
VERB· It appeared that they had already approached Boeing on this matter and had tried to induce another key employee to join them.· Is he trying to induce me to make a foolish bid, or does he actually have four of a kind himself?· They tried to induce King to commit suicide by threatening to release this information.· Since you are trying to induce intense nausea responses in your clients, you may be concerned that they may actually vomit.
WORD FAMILYnouninducementverbinduce
1 formal to persuade someone to do something, especially something that does not seem wiseinduce somebody to do something Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.2 medical to make a woman give birth to her baby, by giving her a special drug: She had to be induced because the baby was four weeks late. The doctor decided to induce labour.3formal to cause a particular physical condition: Patients with eating disorders may use drugs to induce vomiting.drug-induced/stress-induced etc a drug-induced coma