MEANING
To contribute to an outcome or make it more likely.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- conduce to peace
- conduce to understanding
On the page
The arrangement conduced to cooperation without resolving disagreement.
She asked whether the method conduced to understanding or merely order.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- conduce
- Past tense
- conduced
- Past participle
- conduced
- Present participle
- conducing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- conduce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are conducing
- Present perfect
- have/has conduced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been conducing
- Past
- conduced
- Past continuous
- was/were conducing
- Past perfect
- had conduced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been conducing
- Future
- will conduce
- Future continuous
- will be conducing
- Future perfect
- will have conduced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been conducing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: conduce; conduces; conduced; conduced; conducing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: conduces.
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