Adduce

Definition: Adduce

Adduce

Verb

1. Advance evidence for.

Date "adduce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Adduce \Ad*duce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Adduced; present participle verb or noun Adducing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Adduce

Synonyms: abduce (v), cite (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evidence	Adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses, confront witnesses.
Recession	Verb: attract, draw; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Adduce

English words defined with "adduce": Ad-, Adduced ♦ To bring forward, To make one's law. (references)

Etymologies containing "adduce": Adduct, Adduction. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Adduce" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (abducts).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Ireland	The 2000 Sex Offenders Bill provides that "separate legal representation will be provided to complainants in rape and other serious sexual assault cases where application is made to adduce evidence or to cross-examine the complainant about his or her past sexual experience." In 1999 the National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women (a multiagency government body) began a public outreach campaign to combat violence against women, which it described as a "hidden" and "severely under reported" problem. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Adduce" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.69% of the time. "Adduce" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	82.69%	43	52,181
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.31%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	52	N/A

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Language		Translations for "adduce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sjell (bear, beget, bring, carry, cause, draw, engender, fetch, induce, inflict, return), përmend (cite, make mention, mention, name, note, notice, point out, quote, refer). (various references)

Arabic		‏قدم الدليل (substantiate), ‏أورد (report), ‏دلى (dangle, hang, loll). (various references)

Bulgarian		привеждам (adduct, produce), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, show up, signalize, single out, throw up, urge), давам (accommodate, accord, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese		举例 (Adduced, Adducing, Instanced, Instancing). (various references)

Czech		uvést (bring into play, cite, induct, initiate, introduce, preface, quote, show in, state, usher, usher in). (various references)

Dutch		een getuige voortbrengen (to adduce witnesses, to bring forward witnesses, to produce witnesses), bewijsmateriaal aanvoeren (adduce evidence, adduce proofs). (various references)

Finnish		tuoda oikeuteen todistajia (to adduce witnesses, to bring forward witnesses, to produce witnesses). (various references)

French		apporter, invoquer, fournir, citer. (various references)

German		erbringen (furnish, give, produce, proposal, to adduce). (various references)

Greek		προσκομίζω (offer, produce), προσάγω (adduct, rout), προβάλλω (allege, come into sight, come up, peer, project, propound, put up, show off). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ביא ראי�". (various references)

Hungarian		hivatkozik valamire (allude to), felhoz (allege, to adduce, to bring up, to broach, to fetch up, to raise). (various references)

Indonesian		mengemukakan (express, profound, utter). (various references)

Italian		addurre (abduce, to assert, to bring forward a proof, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea, urge). (various references)

Manx		cur feanish. (various references)

Pig Latin		adduceay

Portuguese		apresentar provas, alegar (allege, bring, bring forward, cite, claim, object, plead, presume, pretend, say, to assert, to bring forward a proof, to plea, to pretend, to put up a plea), aduzir, exemplificar (exemplify, instance, typify), citar (borrow, call, cite, convene, mention, name, quote, summon, to sue someone, to summon someone). (various references)

Romanian		aduce (accompany, afford, bear, bring, bring in, cause, collect, convey, drive, fetch, furnish, gather, get, lead, produce, secure, supply, take, transport, yield), cita (cite, quote, warn). (various references)

Russian		представлять (conceive of, ideate, introduce, introduce to you, perform, present, rendered, represent, stand for). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		navesti (bring up, cite, induce, lead, lead on, maneuver, manoeuvre, persuade, plead, prompt, quote, suggest), izneti (bring forth, bring up, carry out, clear away, introduce, put forward, state, trot out). (various references)

Spanish		aducir (furnish, put in, teach). (various references)

Swedish		anföra (allege, captain, cite, command, conduct, lead, Lodge, offer, quote, say, state). (various references)

Turkish		vermek (accord, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), ileri sürmek (advance, affirm, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, urge, weigh in with), göstermek (betoken, demonstrate, denote, depict, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, represent, run, set out, shew, show, show off, show up, signify, speak, stamp, table, teach, trot out, uncork). (various references)

Ukranian		цитувати (allege, cite, invoke, quote), наводити (align, cite), подавати (pass in, prefer, present, provide, send, send in). (various references)

Welsh		nodi (appoint, mark, note, state), dwyn ymlaen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adducere, exemplari, exemplo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adduce": adduced, adducent, adducer, adducers, adduces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adduce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adace, Addacs, Addaie, addance, addick, Addu, adduck, adeuce, adjuke, adoce, adoke, Adoko, Adpcm, aduce, adue, Aduku, adule, aduncum, aduse, Ardeche, Ardoch, Balducci, Dadouche, Narducci. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-u"
	-2 letters: aced, cade, cued, dace, dead, duad, duce, dude.
	-3 letters: ace, add, cad, cud, cue, dad, dud, due, eau, ecu.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, de, ed.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-u"
	+1 letter: abduced, adduced, adducer, adduces, decidua.
	+2 letters: abducted, adducent, adducers, adducted, caudated, crusaded, deciduae, decidual, deciduas, educated, traduced.
	+3 letters: adductive, debauched, deciduate, jaundiced, mudcapped, outdanced, undercard.
	+4 letters: acidulated, adjudicate, ambuscaded, decapodous, decoupaged, decussated, duckwalked, duodecimal, duplicated, elucidated, fecundated, handcuffed, redundancy, reeducated, transduced, undecadent, undeclared, underacted, undercards, uneducated.
	+5 letters: adjudicated, adjudicates, archdukedom, candidature, discouraged, duodecimals, edulcorated, endocardium, miseducated, undecidable, undecorated, undedicated, unmedicated.
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