Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to incite
Participle: incited
Gerund: inciting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | incite |
| you | incite |
| he;she;it | incites |
| we | incite |
| you | incite |
| they | incite |
Perfect
| I | have incited |
| you | have incited |
| he;she;it | has incited |
| we | have incited |
| you | have incited |
| they | have incited |
Past
| I | incited |
| you | incited |
| he;she;it | incited |
| we | incited |
| you | incited |
| they | incited |
Pluperfect
| I | had incited |
| you | had incited |
| he;she;it | had incited |
| we | had incited |
| you | had incited |
| they | had incited |
Future
| I | will incite |
| you | will incite |
| he;she;it | will incite |
| we | will incite |
| you | will incite |
| they | will incite |
Future Perfect
| I | will have incited |
| you | will have incited |
| he;she;it | will have incited |
| we | will have incited |
| you | will have incited |
| they | will have incited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | incite |
| you | incite |
| he;she;it | incite |
| we | incite |
| you | incite |
| they | incite |
Perfect
| I | have incited |
| you | have incited |
| he;she;it | have incited |
| we | have incited |
| you | have incited |
| they | have incited |
Imperfect
| I | incited |
| you | incited |
| he;she;it | incited |
| we | incited |
| you | incited |
| they | incited |
Pluperfect
| I | had incited |
| you | had incited |
| he;she;it | had incited |
| we | had incited |
| you | had incited |
| they | had incited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would incite |
| you | would incite |
| he;she;it | would incite |
| we | would incite |
| you | would incite |
| they | would incite |
Perfect
| I | would have incited |
| you | would have incited |
| he;she;it | would have incited |
| we | would have incited |
| you | would have incited |
| they | would have incited |
Imperative
| you | incite |
| we | Let's incite |
| you | incite |
Verbs conjugated like 'incite'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'incite'
encite,
incide,
incise,
incute,
indite,
invite,
accite,
cite,
concite,
encise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- encourage
- stimulate
- bring about a reaction
- provoke
- provoke something
- tempt
- bring about
- invoke
- to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction
- abet, actuate, bring about, encourage, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, impel, induce, instigate, invoke, motivate, move, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spur, stir, stir up, urge, whip up
- To provide an incentive for.
- drive
- Especially something foolhardy or reckless.
- egg on
- To encourage into action.
- stimulate
- To provoke something.
- tempt
- induce
- encourage, goad, prod, provoke, spur, instigate, stimulate
Antonyms
- to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction
- demotivate, discourage, halt, prevent, stop
- To provide an incentive for.
- drive
- induce
- repress, prevent, hinder, hamper
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1447, from M.Fr.
enciter (14c.), from L.
incitare "to put into rapid motion, urge, encourage, stimulate," from
in- "on" +
citare "move, excite" (see cite).
2. From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”). See: Latin '
incitō'.
Sample Sentences
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The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
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incite people to violence
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Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history. [2018 October 15, Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military”, in The New York Times:]
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Who and what exactly incited Amir? [2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times:]
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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. [2020 January 9, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times:]