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/əˈd(j)uːs/ · verb
(transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege..
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]
But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.
Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.
Use adduce when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adduce means (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege..
Common synonyms include advance, allege, assign, cite.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
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