Self-induce

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cause in, for, or on oneself. transitive

    "[…] between 1.7 percent and 4.1 percent of all women in Texas eighteen to forty-nine years old had tried to self-induce an abortion […]"

Example

More examples

"[…] between 1.7 percent and 4.1 percent of all women in Texas eighteen to forty-nine years old had tried to self-induce an abortion […]"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.