incite

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/

• Audio (US):

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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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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.

Related terms

• inciteful
• incitement
• incitive

 

Translations

to rouse, stir up or excite

• Arabic: حَرَّضَ (ḥarraḍa), حَضَّ (ḥaḍḍa)
• Armenian: դրդել (hy) (drdel)
• Bulgarian: подбуждам (bg) (podbuždam), стимулирам (bg) (stimuliram)
• Catalan: incitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煽起 (shānqǐ)

• Czech: podněcovat impf, navádět impf, nabádat (cs) impf
• Dutch: aanzetten (nl), ophitsen (nl)
• Esperanto: inciti
• Finnish: yllyttää (fi), kiihottaa (fi), kannustaa (fi)
• French: inciter (fr)
• Galician: incinir, imbelicar, bezar, demerxer, enfoutar, encirrar (gl), apurrar (gl), enxibar, estrizar, isar, istar, enridar, atouzar (gl), envizcar
• German: anstacheln (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐρεθίζω (erethízō), ὄρνυμι (órnumi)

• Hebrew: שלהב m (shilhév), שיסה (he) m (shisá)
• Hungarian: felbujt (hu), uszít (hu), ösztönöz (hu), buzdít (hu)
• Irish: spreag, fadaigh, dreasaigh
• Japanese: 扇ぐ (ja) (あおぐ, aogu), 嗾ける (ja) (けしかける, keshikakeru)
• Kapampangan: sulsul
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} arandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} azirandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} cixirandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} sîqilandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} tehrîk kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} lê sor kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} teşwîq kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} engizandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} belişandin (ku), ^{(please verify)} pîj kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} ajawe kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} provoke kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} han dan (ku), ^{(please verify)} fît kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} xiroşme kirin (ku), ^{(please verify)} cilixandin (ku)

• Latin: incitō
• Maori: whakakā, tuata (by means of ritual), akiaki, ueue, whakatari, whakakoikoi
• Occitan: incitar (oc)
• Old English: bǣdan
• Ottoman Turkish: دورتمك (dürtmek), كوروكلمك (körüklemek)
• Persian: انگیزاندن (angizândan), شوراندن (fa) (šurândan)
• Polish: podżegać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: incitar (pt), provocar (pt)
• Quechua: hatarichiy
• Romanian: incita (ro), ațâța (ro), stârni (ro)
• Russian: подстрека́ть (ru) (podstrekátʹ), подбива́ть (ru) (podbivátʹ), разжига́ть (ru) (razžigátʹ) (e.g. hatred)
• Sanskrit: चोदति (codati)
• Spanish: incitar (es), concitar (es)
• Tagalog: sulsol
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kışkırtmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: підбу́рювати impf (pidbúrjuvaty), підбу́рити pf (pidbúryty)
• Vietnamese: kích động (vi)

Further reading

• “incite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “incite”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “incite”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• intice

French

Pronunciation

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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