incite

verb
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they incite
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🔊/ɪnˈsaɪt/
he / she / it incites
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪts/
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past simple incited
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/
past participle incited
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪd/
-ing form inciting
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ɪnˈsaɪtɪŋ/
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  1. to encourage somebody to do something violent, illegal or unpleasant, especially by making them angry or excited煽动;鼓动
    • incite something to incite crime/racial hatred/violence教唆犯罪;煽动种族仇恨/暴力
    • incite somebody (to something) They were accused of inciting the crowd to violence.他们被控煽动群众暴乱。🔊🔊
    • incite somebody to do something He incited the workforce to come out on strike.他煽动工人罢工。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • The governor blamed foreign groups for inciting the violence.州长指责外国团体煽动暴力。
    • There is legislation to ban material that incites racial hatred.法律明令禁止散播煽动种族仇恨的资料。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • deliberately
    preposition
    • to
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    Word Originlate 15th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as incitation): from French inciter, from Latin incitare, from in- ‘towards’ + citare ‘rouse’.