adduce
UK/əˈdjuːs//əˈd(j)uːs/
adduce verb: to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.
Verb
adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)
- To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.
- Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) advance, allege, assign, aver, cite, instance, mention, name, point out, plead, present, put forward, quote, urge
- Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
- To produce as proof.
- At this juncture, he sought to establish the awareness of the activity; to that end, he then adduced the receipts from the transactions of June 30th.
adduce meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
adduce in Tamil
- எடுத்துக்கூறு, எடுத்துச் சொல், சான்றாகக் காட்டு, சான்றாகக் கூறு, சான்றாகச் சொல்
adduce in Urdu
- لانا, تذکرہ کرنا, ذکر لانا
adduce in Bengali
- উদ্বুদ্ধ করা
adduce in Malayalam
- quote, cite, name
- തെളിവു സമർപ്പിക്കുക, തെളിവിനായി പ്രസ്താവിക്കുക, തെളിയിക്കാനായി എടുത്തു കാണിക്കുക, ഉദ്ധരിക്കുക, തെളിവായി കൊണ്ടുവരുക, പേരെടുത്തു പറയുക
More languagesFewer languages
- adduce in Kannada
- ಎತ್ತುಗೆ ಕೊಡು, ಸಲುವು ಕೊಡು
- adduce in Persian
- برهان آوردن borhân âvardan
Examples of adduce in a sentence
- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […]...
- But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R.1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
Synonyms of adduce
4 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of adduce
| third-person singular present | adduces |
|---|---|
| present participle | adducing |
| past participle | adduced |
| past | adduced |
Origin of adduce
From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
Words formed from adduce
Words that rhyme with adduce
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- cruse
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about adduce
- What does adduce mean?
- Adduce means to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case.
- What is adduce in Tamil?
- Adduce in Tamil is எடுத்துக்கூறு, எடுத்துச் சொல், சான்றாகக் காட்டு. See Adduce meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use adduce in a sentence?
- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
- What part of speech is adduce?
- Adduce is a verb.
- How do you pronounce adduce?
- Adduce is pronounced /əˈd(j)uːs/ (US).
- What is the past tense of adduce?
- The past tense of adduce is adduced.
Words near adduce in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adduce (page history and authors); adduce (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adduce (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adduce (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adduce (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); adduce (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-adduce-2.ogg.
Cite this entry: “adduce.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/adduce. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.