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1. Cause to arise
   "induce a crisis"
   - bring on
    
2. Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
   "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"
   - stimulate, cause, have, get, make
    
3. Cause to occur rapidly
   - stimulate, rush, hasten
    
4. Reason or establish by induction
    
5. Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
   - induct

Derived forms: induces, inducing, induced

See also: inducement, inducer, inducive, induction

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