Thesaurus:incite
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
(transitive)
Sense: to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- abet
- actuate
- bring about
- drive
- encourage
- egg on (idiomatic)
- engender
- evoke
- excite
- foment
- goad
- grill (Scotland, US, obsolete)
- impel
- incite
- induce
- instigate
- invoke
- motivate
- move [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- obligate
- oblige
- prompt [⇒ thesaurus]
- provoke
- rouse
- set off
- spur
- stimulate
- stir
- stir up
- tempt
- urge
- whip up
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Translations[edit]
- Chinese: Thesaurus:慫恿
Further reading[edit]
- “615. motive” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “incite” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.