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Another word for incite

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incite

v.

arouse, rouse, instigate, impel, stimulate, provoke, foment, excite, spur, goad, sic, exhort, persuade, influence, induce, prick, prod, push, taunt, actuate, activate, animate, inspirit, coax, stir up, fire up, inflame, whip up, motivate, prompt, drive, urge, urge on, egg on, inspire, abet, work up, lash into a fury, talk into, whip on, hold sway over, blow the coals, fan the flame; see also drive 1, encourage 1, push 2, urge 2.

Antonyms discourage*, dissuade, check.

incite implies an urging or stimulating to action, either in a favorable or unfavorable sense incited to achievement by rivalry; instigate always implies responsibility for initiating an action and usually connotes a bad or evil purpose who instigated the riot?; foment suggests continued incitement over an extended period of time the unjust taxes fomented rebellion

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Another word for incite

verb

To stir to action or feeling:

egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, set off, spur, stimulate, touch off, trigger, work up. See cause, excite

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Rather than incite her, it left her sleepy.
The main result of this struggle was everywhere to strengthen the power of the princes and to incite them to fresh acts of aggression.
The North American Indians fear lest their venerated rattlesnake should incite its kinsfolk to avenge any injury done to it, and when the Seminole Indians begged an English traveller to rid them of one of these troublesome intruders, they scratched him-as a matter of formin order to appease the spirit of the dead snake.
Under these circumstances, Bacon, who feared that such a report might incite other people to attempt a similar offence, proposed to the king that a second rumour should be circulated in order to destroy the impression caused by the first.
With John Brown, to whom he gave a farm in Essex county, New York, he became very intimate, and from time to time supplied him with funds, though it seems without knowing that any of the money would be employed in an attempt to incite a slave insurrection.

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