See induce in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.",
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"ref": "2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian:",
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"text": "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.",
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"ref": "2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:",
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"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "inducir"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ubeždavam",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "убеждавам"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "induir"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "opwekken"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "veroorzaken"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "overhalen"
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"word": "bewerkstelligen"
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "induire"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "inducir"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "dazu bringen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "anstacheln"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "okoz"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "létrehoz"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"english": "persuade",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"english": "persuade",
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "induktar"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "persuadere"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "incitare"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "bɑŋkɑɑ",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "បង្ក"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "induco"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "whakapakepake"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "indusir"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "induir"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "indukovať"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "inducir"
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{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
"word": "peri"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to cause; persuade; force",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
"word": "verursachen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
"word": "hervorrufen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
"word": "führen zu"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
"word": "indurre"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "to cause, bring about, lead to",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "induciram",
"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
"word": "индуцирам"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
"word": "induzieren"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
"word": "indurre"
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"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
"word": "inducir"
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{
"code": "cy",
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"sense": "(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state)",
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