Abduce

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw or lead away by persuasion or argument.
  • To lead away or carry off by improper means; abduct.
  • To draw away or aside, as by the action of an abductor muscle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
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  • verb. advance evidence for
  • Word Usage
    ""Adam can then abduce hypotheses, and infer what would be efficient experiments to discriminate between different hypotheses, and whether there's evidence for them," King expands."
    Form
    abduced  abducing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    withdraw