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Synonym Study

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

  • Rather than incite her, it left her sleepy.

  • The same night the Sudanese leaders, fearful lest their men might submit, murdered Thruston and his companions and sent letters to Uganda to incite their comrades to mutiny.

  • The main result of this struggle was everywhere to strengthen the power of the princes and to incite them to fresh acts of aggression.

  • Old Marshal de Noailles tried to incite Louis XV.

  • 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.

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