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adduced

adduced is the simple past and past participle of adduce.

Meaning of adduce

Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (transitive) 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.

Questions about adduced

What is adduced the simple past and past participle of?
Adduced is the simple past and past participle of adduce.

Words near adduced in the dictionary

  1. addubitation
  2. addubitations
  3. adducable
  4. adduce
  5. adduceable
  6. adduced
  7. adducement
  8. adducements
  9. adducent
  10. adducer
  11. adducers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adduced (page history and authors); adduce (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.

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