incite

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See also: incité

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĭn.sīt', IPA(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

incite (third-person singular simple present incites, present participle inciting, simple past and past participle incited)

  1. (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:incite
    The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
    incite people to violence
    • 2018 October 15, Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military”, in The New York Times‎:
      Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.
    • 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times‎:
      Who and what exactly incited Amir?
    • 2020 September 1, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times‎:
      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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Pronunciation

Verb

incite

  1. inflection of inciter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative
    2. first-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

incite

  1. inflection of incitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

incite

  1. inflection of incitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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