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incite

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈsaɪt/
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/ɪnˈsaɪt/ · /ɪnsajʈ/

Definition of incite

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To call into action.
    “The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.”
    “incite people to violence”
    “Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.”
    “Who and what exactly incited Amir?”
    “President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To call into action.
    “The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.”
    “incite people to violence”
    “Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.”
    “Who and what exactly incited Amir?”
    “President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.”
  2. (transitive)To entreat an act.
  3. (transitive)To instigate a specific incident.

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Etymology

From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”).

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