to induce
51
4.9
- verb
- /ɪnˈduːs/
:
persuadir
- They offered discounts to induce more customers to visit the store during the sale.
- induce compliance
- incentives induce
- induce states to act
Almost all government lying is destructive because it induces people to to view the government in a false environment.
- Almost all government lying is destructive because it induces people to to view the government in a false environment.
- How do workers, whether flight attendants or bill collectors, induce themselves to feel and express the emotions that seem right for their jobs?
- What if the way in which it's framed is leaving something out or inducing people to look at some things in the wrong way?
Examples
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Ostensibly, the purpose of most of the sanctions is to induce Iran to make concessions regarding its nuclear program.
Academic text (2013) -
And the best way to induce demand is by advertising that your prices just went down.
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But what can one do to induce in people pro social moral behaviour?
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I can assure you that nothing you can do will ever induce your wife to divorce you.
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Andrew thought of his own nightly efforts to induce his children to do their homework.
Fiction book (1995) -
And so the strict competition induces cooperation as a strategy to win the competition.
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Did anybody make any threats or promises in order to induce you to plead guilty?
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The victories of science tended to induce an attitude of omnicompetence in the scientific mind.
Academic text (1991) -
We can induce confession out of Yang Doo Hee.
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The work of abstraction in its less expressive modes induces us to reflect on our own situatedness.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
∞
1.8
To cause someone to do something, often by persuading them
∞
1.0
To arrange something or cause it to happen
∞
1.0
To make something happen
∞
1.0
To force someone to do something
∞
3.6
To cause someone to want to do something strongly
∞
2.7
Make someone believe something is true or agree to do something
837
3.2
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
591
3.2
To strongly encourage someone to do something
472
2.7
To make someone agree or do something by giving reasons
437
3.5
Make someone want to do something
236
3.7
Make a person or thing more active, alert and responsive
149
4.2
To try to make someone do something
115
3.7
Cause a reaction or feeling
72
7.7
To push people to do violent or illegal acts
61
4.9
To persuade someone to do something by offering something they want
54
4.1
To gently persuade someone by being kind and patient
53
5.9
Persuade someone to give up duties or beliefs by offering something attractive
45
4.7
To make someone want to do something
36
6.9
To cause something bad to start
23
6.7
To persuade someone to do something after repeated effort
16
7.7
To strongly encourage someone to do something
15
7.7
To persuade someone to do something by gentle talk and praise
7
7.7
Urge someone to do something illegal
5
4.1
To be likely to do something or to make someone feel that way
4
7.2
To make someone feel they must do something, often because of pressure or need
4
7.7
To persuade someone who does not want to do something to do it
1
6.0
To use influence to persuade someone to do something
To make someone act because of a feeling or reason
Persuade someone to do what you want
Antonyms
How Persuasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
induce = in + duce
The prefix 'in-' is productive but the root 'duce' is a Latin combining form not a standalone English word, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Induce comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and ducere 'to lead'. To persuade someone is like 'leading them into' a choice or action, so 'induce' means to guide or get a person to do something.