simple past tense and past participle of induce
"The doctor induced labor after the pregnancy reached full term."
In plain English: To induce means to cause something to happen or make someone do something.
"The bright lights induced a feeling of calm in the anxious crowd."
Usage: Use "induced" to describe something that was caused or brought about by an external factor, such as inducing labor with medication or inducing doubt in someone. It functions as the simple past tense or past participle of the verb induce when referring to causing a specific result or state.
Derived from Latin induĕre, this past participle combines in- (into) with duĕre (to lead), originally meaning to drive or guide something into a specific state. In modern usage, it retains the sense of bringing about an effect through external influence or reasoning.