单词 | induce |
释义 | induce (once / 135 pages) 1v 2v To induce is to move or lead someone to action. A promise of a lollipop can induce a toddler to do just about anything, even sit down and be polite to Aunt Edna. Older kids need something more substantial. Some people believe that if you offer someone a large enough sum of money, you could induce them to do almost anything. But a movie heroine might say to the villain, "Nothing could induce me to marry you. Not all the money in the world. Not if you were the last man on Earth!" Induce also means to stimulate the occurrence of something, such as medications used to induce vomiting, or to induce a pregnant woman to go into labor. WORD FAMILYinduce: induced, inducement, inducer, induces, inducing, inducive+/induced: self-induced/inducement: inducements/inducer: inducers USAGE EXAMPLESThe 42-year-old pizzeria owner strolled along Route 9 for 10 minutes on Labor Day, inducing hilarity and horror in pedestrians and motorists. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Christopher Tester, from Torquay, is in an induced coma on the Caribbean island after he was attacked at his parents' restaurant on Christmas Day night. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) Bart pulled through heart surgery, but he was placed in an induced coma and never woke up. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 1v cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner The ads induced me to buy a VCR Syn|Hypo cause, get, have, make, stimulate decide cause to decide persuadecause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm bringinduce or persuade solicitincite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination encouragespur on letactively cause something to happen leadcause to undertake a certain action inspire, instigate, promptserve as the inciting cause of suborninduce to commit perjury or give false testimony compel, obligate, obligeforce somebody to do something force, thrustimpose urgently, importunately, or inexorably hustlepressure or urge someone into an action bring around, bring roundcause to adopt an opinion or course of action badgerpersuade through constant efforts sellpersuade somebody to accept something chat uptalk to someone with the aim of persuading him talk intopersuade somebody to do something rope indraw in as if with a rope; lure blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedleinfluence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering convert, convince, win overmake (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something brainwashpersuade completely, often through coercion giveguide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion assureassure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence charm, influence, temptinduce into action by using one's charm prevailuse persuasion successfully dragpersuade to come away from something attractive or interesting tempttry presumptuously walkmake walk coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeezeto cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" clamorcompel someone to do something by insistent clamoring condemncompel or force into a particular state or activity shamecompel through a sense of shame apply, enforce, implementensure observance of laws and rules enforce, imposecompel to behave in a certain way 2v cause to arise induce a crisis Syn|Hyper bring on bring forth, generate bring into existence 3v cause to occur rapidly Syn|Hyper hasten, rush, stimulate effect, effectuate, set up produce 4v produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes 2Syn|Hyper induct bring about, give rise, produce cause to happen, occur or exist v reason or establish by induction Hyper conclude, reason, reason out decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion |
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