1. past tense and past participle of deduce; reached a conclusion by reasoning from evidence or general principles

Examples

• She deduced from the muddy footprints that someone had entered through the back door.
• The detective deduced the suspect’s identity from the evidence at the crime scene.
• Scientists deduced the age of the fossil from the rock layers surrounding it.
• He deduced that the meeting was cancelled when he saw the empty conference room.
• From her silence, I deduced that she was upset about something.
• The mathematician deduced the theorem from basic principles.
• We deduced the password by analyzing the security patterns.