The speaker tried to incite the people to rebellion.
Source: tatoeba (25918)
Incite
//ɪnˈsaɪt//
Synonyms for "incite" (167 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (50)
Related words (83)
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4 entriesTranslations
90 translations across 40 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- valo verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- zi verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐρεθίζω verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ὄρνυμι verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Arabic
2 entries- حَرَّضَ verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- حَضَّ verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Armenian
1 entries- դրդել verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Bulgarian
2 entries- подбуждам verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- стимулирам verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Catalan
1 entries- incitar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Chechen
1 entries- оьйхаз ваккха verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 煽起 verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Czech
3 entries- nabádat verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- navádět verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- podněcovat verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Dutch
2 entries- aanzetten verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ophitsen verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Esperanto
1 entries- inciti verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Finnish
3 entries- kannustaa verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- kiihottaa verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- yllyttää verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
French
1 entries- inciter verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Galician
4 entries- apurrar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- atouzar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- bezar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- demerxer verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
German
1 entries- anstacheln verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Hebrew
2 entries- שיסה verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- שלהב verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Hindi
2 entries- उकसाना verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- भड़काना verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Hungarian
4 entries- buzdít verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- felbujt verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- uszít verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ösztönöz verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Irish
3 entries- dreasaigh verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- fadaigh verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- spreag verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Japanese
2 entries- 嗾ける verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- 扇ぐ verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Kapampangan
1 entries- sulsul verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Latin
1 entries- incitō verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Māori
4 entries- akiaki verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ueue verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- whakakoikoi verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- whakakā verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Occitan
1 entries- incitar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Old English
1 entries- bǣdan verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دورتمك verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- كوروكلمك verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Persian
2 entries- انگیزاندن verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- شوراندن verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Polish
4 entries- podżegać verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- podżegnąć verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- wichrzyć verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- zwichrzyć verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Portuguese
2 entries- incitar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- provocar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Quechua
1 entries- hatarichiy verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Romanian
3 entries- ațâța verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- incita verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- stârni verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Russian
3 entries- подбива́ть verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- подстрека́ть verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- разжига́ть verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Sanskrit
1 entries- चोदति verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Spanish
2 entries- concitar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- incitar verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Tagalog
1 entries- sulsol verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Thai
4 entries- ปลุก verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ปลุกระดม verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ยั่วยุ verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- ยุยง verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Turkish
1 entries- kışkırtmak verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Ukrainian
2 entries- підбу́рити verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- підбу́рювати verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Urdu
2 entries- اکسانا verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
- بھڑَکانا verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kích động verb (to rouse, stir up or excite)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Tom used to be socially anxious because he couldn't find anyone who would understand and share his devotion to stoats; however, everything changed when he learned to incite passion for stoats in others with the use of just a few carefully designed phrases.
Source: tatoeba (4465556)
Many aspects of Christianity are designed to incite hatred and violence, such as the claim that Jews cried out in unison, "His blood be on us and our children!"
Source: tatoeba (10540835)
He however says the government will not condone pronouncements that incite violence and chaos.
Source: tatoeba (10995429)
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