deduceverb [ T ]
uk/dɪˈdʒuːs/us/dɪˈduːs/C2 to reach an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the known facts:
We cannot deduce very much from these figures.
[ + that ] The police have deduced that he must have left his apartment yesterday evening.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduction
- diagnosis
- exclude
- extrapolate
- gather
- impute sth to sb
- induction
- inductive
- infer
- inference
- must
- perceive
- put
- put sth down to sth
- put two and two together idiom
- reason
- syllogism
- two
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deducible
adjective uk/dɪˈdʒuː.sə.bəl/us/dɪˈduː.sə.bəl/formal
able to be deduced
deductive
adjective uk/dɪˈdʌk.tɪv/us/dɪˈdʌk.tɪv/
a deductive argument
deductive logic/reasoning