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Meaning incite meaning

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Definitions in simple English

incite Verb

— To rouse, stir up or excite. To cause action to happen. To cause a reaction. He said his friends had incited him to break the window.

incite

— verb (= set off, stir up) provoke or stir up incite a riot set off great unrest among the people — verb (= move) give an incentive for action This moved me to sacrifice my career — verb (= prod) urge on; cause to act The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window

Synonyms incite synonyms

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incite English » English

instigate stir up provoke stimulate urge arouse encourage rouse excite abet prompt agitate impel induce spur stir spur on goad prod egg on foment trigger provocate urge on persuade move motivate kindle disturb irritate influence inflame exhort drive vex press exasperate animate aggravate wield whirl whet wave about wave wag tempt tease talk into swing sway

Topics incite topics

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Social behavior Conflict

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Conjugation incite conjugation

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incite · verb

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Simple sentences

The speaker tried to incite the people to rebellion.

Movie subtitles

Do not incite me, please.
You must incite the residents against Prince Alexander.
They incite people.
By every means we must try. to incite this gang to make a mistake.
My heart is full of joy, Gracious Lords that we sit together at one table, as it is fitting for good Christians. Let us not allow the Samogitians to incite war between the Order and your king.
Not once did he speak a word that would incite violence.
It is pointless to incite a mutiny, Mr. Christian.
War brings hatred but the work of man remains to incite love.
Incite border warfare, so to speak. Between the Americans and Canadians.
Does Miss Brodie incite you to shirk your duties on the hockey field?
You incite him to take precautions and these precautions will destroy him.
Why do the ideas we stand for incite such violence?
He came in, bold as brass tried to incite my crew to disaffect.
Religious fanatics who incite murder. for the sake of a God they have never known.
Barabbas is trying to incite the numerous nomadic tribes of Samaria to open resistance against Rome.
Maybe you should beware of a tendency to idealize, which can incite either to militarism or delinquency.
Send away the advisors who incite you to violate the temples!
It's a bad policy to incite the men.
Not only did they send spies into our province, they also tried to incite a revolt of our peasants against us.
Accused, did you incite the people to destroy the temple of Jerusalem?
Hey! It's not nice to incite!
Why incite others to despair while you yourself enjoy life?
It's your job to harass and incite an old man into a heart attack?
You should stir people up, push them, disturb them, incite them.
But we were wrong. Cocktails incite the human machine.
Dr. Turner's efforts to incite anti-rent rebellion in our local district. have been well-known to me for many months now.
The distinguished Mrs. Angelina, whom you well know, has just left here a minute ago threatening to incite the slum dwellers to reoccupy the flats!
Then, you'll incite our hearts and we'll come after you. On the saddle now!
Young lady, I cannot allow you to incite my pupils.
It's against the law to cross a State line with intent to incite a riot.
Not to incite to riot, just to have the intent to do it.
While you have a wonderful imagination, most are stunted and you have no idea what effect they'll have on people or what they might incite them to.
Otherwise, their behavior could incite other women. leading to anarchy of biblical proportions.
Sabotage, assaulting a Federation officer attempting to incite war between the Federation and the Dominion.

News and current affairs

The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement - its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards - should actually incite the greatest concern.
If the latter are ignored, regional interests can incite chaos once again.
Did these short cuts help incite his death?
But the numbers in the IMF program were fiction; any economist would have predicted that contractionary policies incite slowdown, and that budget targets would not be met.
Compromise on their side if met by extremism on the other would incite disaster.
An exaggerated sense of lost glory helped incite the French Army to fake the evidence that convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of spying for the Kaiser.
But their writings and statements have been sufficiently hysterical and hateful to incite a person with an unbalanced mind.
If their arguments remain unproved or are disproved, then the war will incite instability.
But in the swing of the pendulum the excesses of yesterday will incite greater scrutiny and a tougher rulebook for business in the future.
A conspiracy to lace letters with anthrax might incite private terror.
The problem with such intrusive oversight is that political issues that incite the strongest passions -- such as determining electoral lists -- are suppressed when an international body offers and imposes its own solutions.
These fears incite anger and xenophobia, even though everyone knows that globalization cannot be conquered by kicking out foreigners.
If one remains aware of this, and if one does not attempt to impose on the Union the disagreements that America's current leaders and policies incite, an obvious conclusion comes to mind.
While attempts to stir up hatred against adherents of a religion, or to incite violence against them, may legitimately be suppressed, criticism of religion as such should not be.
Military intervention in Iran - which itself will be holding a presidential election in June - would incite not only regional, but global, instability.
And, indeed, Charlie Hebdo should be free to publish what it likes, without fear of violence, as long as it does not directly incite violence itself.
It may incite a conversation, but it does so from a position of profound disrespect.
For all the UN's intellectual commitment to the furtherance of human rights, it knows better than to incite the displeasure of the Chinese or the Russians by receiving activists from Tibet or Chechnya.
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
This is light years away from the strong emotions presidential elections usually incite in developing countries.
Similarly, any move by Bosnia's Serb Republic to secede could incite instability there.

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