educing
educing is the present participle and gerund of educe.
Meaning of educe
Verb
educe (third-person singular simple present educes, present participle educing, simple past and past participle educed)
- To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
- To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
- To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
- The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole.1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
- To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
- To cause or generate; to bring about.
Questions about educing
- What is educing the present participle and gerund of?
- Educing is the present participle and gerund of educe.
Words near educing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: educing (page history and authors); educe (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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