(transitive) To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon.

(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.

(transitive) To induce the labour of (a pregnant woman).

(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

(transitive, logic) To infer by induction.

(transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.

(transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon. (Can we add an example for this sense?)