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superinducing

superinducing is the present participle and gerund of superinduce.

Meaning of superinduce

Verb

superinduce (third-person singular simple present superinduces, present participle superinducing, simple past and past participle superinduced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.
  2. To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
    • For this purpose Nature hath framed in both sexes parts and places fit for generation; beside an instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sin is superinduced in man, but natural residing in the exquisite sense of the obscene parts.1615, Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man, Book Four, Chapter One, cited in Kenneth Borris (ed.), Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts...
  3. To cause (especially further disease) in addition (to an existing medical condition).
    • Among the numerous train of maladies superinduced by that fatal and primary one which effected a revolution of so horrible a kind in the moral and physical being of my cousin, may be mentioned the most distressing and obstinate in its nature, a species of epilepsy not unfrequently terminating in...1835, Edgar Allan Poe, “Berenice”, in Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Folio Society, published 2007, pages 20–1
  4. To place over (something or someone); to cover.
    • So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6

Questions about superinducing

What is superinducing the present participle and gerund of?
Superinducing is the present participle and gerund of superinduce.

Words near superinducing in the dictionary

  1. superinduce
  2. superinduced
  3. superinducement
  4. superinducements
  5. superinduces
  6. superinducing
  7. superinduct
  8. superinduction
  9. superinductions
  10. superindulgent
  11. superindustrial

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