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déduire — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • deduce verb To work out a conclusion through logical reasoning based on known facts or evidence.
  • deduct verb To subtract or take away an amount from a total.
  • derive verb To get or obtain something from a particular source.
  • elicit verb To draw out a response, reaction, or piece of information from someone, often through careful questioning.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • guess verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
  • infer verb To work out or conclude something based on evidence or reasoning, rather than being told directly.

Senses

déduire is used for these senses in English:

  • abate Chiefly followed by from, of, etc.: to omit or remove (a part from a whole); to deduct, to subtract. [15th–19th c.]
  • deduce (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
  • deduct To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
  • derive (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
  • elicit To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
  • gather To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
  • guess To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
  • infer (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]

abate — full definition

  1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.

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