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superinduce

verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/
  • General-American: /ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/

1

verb

Meaning 1

To replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man, Book Four, Chapter One, cited in Kenneth Borris (ed.), Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650, New York and London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 3, p. 140, For this purpose Nature hath framed in both sexes parts and places fit for generation; beside an instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sin is superinduced in man, but natural residing in the exquisite sense of the obscene parts.
  • 1863, John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter, etc. with additional notes by Richard Grant White, New York: Sheldon & Co., Part I, p. 106, footnote https://books.google.ca/books?id=69tUAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I once heard a worthy woman who wished to be elegant, say of her husband, that he was "sufferin' very bad with bronchriches which were superinduced by excessive exposure." The truth and the English of which was that the good man had a cough brought on by getting very wet and cold.

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To cause (especially further disease) in addition (to an existing medical condition).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

verb

Meaning 4

To place over (something or someone); to cover.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

From late Latin superindūcere.