incite
verb /ɪnˈsaɪt/
/ɪnˈsaɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they incite | /ɪnˈsaɪt/ /ɪnˈsaɪt/ |
| he / she / it incites | /ɪnˈsaɪts/ /ɪnˈsaɪts/ |
| past simple incited | /ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle incited | /ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form inciting | /ɪnˈsaɪtɪŋ/ /ɪnˈsaɪtɪŋ/ |
- to encourage somebody to do something violent, illegal or unpleasant, especially by making them angry or excited
- incite something to incite crime/racial hatred/violence
- incite somebody (to something) They were accused of inciting the crowd to violence.
- incite somebody to do something He incited the workforce to come out on strike.
Extra Examples- The governor blamed foreign groups for inciting the violence.
- There is legislation to ban material that incites racial hatred.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deliberately
- to
Word Originlate 15th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as incitation): from French inciter, from Latin incitare, from in- ‘towards’ + citare ‘rouse’.