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1. Act of bringing about a desired result
   "inducing of sleep"
   - inducement

1. Cause to arise
   "induce a crisis"
   - bring on
    
2. Make someone or something act in a particular way or do a particular thing
   "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"
   - stimulate, cause, have, get, make
    
3. Cause to occur rapidly
   - stimulate, rush, hasten, speed up, accelerate
    
4. Reason or establish by induction
    
5. Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
   - induct

See also: inducement, inducer, inducive, induction

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