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Abduces vs Adduces - What's the difference?

abduces | adduces |

As verbs the difference between abduces and adduces

is that abduces is (abduce) while adduces is (adduce).

abduces

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abduce)
  • Anagrams

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    abduce

    English

    Verb

    (abduc)
  • (obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body;abduct.
  • If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. - Sir T. Browne
  • To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.
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    adduces

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (adduce)
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    adduce

    English

    Verb

  • To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
  • :* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
  • :* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
  • :* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
  • :* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
  • Synonyms

    * present * allege * advance * cite * quote * assign * urge * name * mention

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