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say it: in-DOOST
induced is an adjective meaning "brought about or caused; not spontaneous". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈdust/ — in-DOOST. It carries one recorded sense.
brought about or caused; not spontaneous
“a case of steroid-induced weakness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for induced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.