Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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verb
To cause (something) to occur; to bring about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To contribute (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To conduct or lead (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, formal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To advantage or benefit (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: profit
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To carry on or continue (an activity).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, possibly, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To contribute or lead to a specific result.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, intransitive
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Synonyms: promote, subserve
Antonyms: disconduce
verb
To be advantageous to; to advantage, to benefit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: profit
Antonyms: none provided
verb
be conducive to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: contribute, lead
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
History
PIE word *ḱóm From Late Middle English conducen (“to guide, lead; (surgery) to draw together (edges of a wound, or parts of a torn sinew); to set (a broken bone)”), borrowed from Latin condūcere, the present active infinitive of condūcō (“to bring, draw, or lead together, assemble, collect; to contribute to something by being useful, be of use, be conducive to”), from con- (prefix denoting a bringing together of several things) + dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead, lead away”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull; to lead (pull behind oneself)”)). Doublet of conduct and conn.
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
