[ US /ˌɪnˈsaɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈa‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. urge on; cause to act
    The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
  2. give an incentive for action
    This moved me to sacrifice my career
  3. provoke or stir up
    incite a riot
    set off great unrest among the people
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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
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