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US
/ˌɪnˈsaɪt/
]
[ UK /ɪnsˈaɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈaɪt/ ]
VERB
-
urge on; cause to act
The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window -
give an incentive for action
This moved me to sacrifice my career -
provoke or stir up
incite a riot
set off great unrest among the people
How To Use incite In A Sentence
- Let's try using the laws on incitement to racial or religious hatred. The Sun
- She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.
- And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- I hope his 2012 campaign ads avoid racial incitement by only saying “reelect the incumbent.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking ObamaCare Challenges Seriously
- That would be to condone incitement to violence. The Times Literary Supplement
- Sphalerite or blende (zinc sulfide), the original zinc ore, smithsonite, hydrozincite, willemite. 13. Glaze oxides
- I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
- The commission dubbed him an “inciter” but found no concrete evidence that he instigated riots; no Carmichael conspiracy existed, they concluded. Burial for a King
- Why does the mention of the word finesse incite so much anger inside an NFL locker room? Sports News : CBSSports.com
- Could incite overthrow of the regime. Times, Sunday Times