Incite

Verb

 * 1) To rouse, stir up or excite.
 * The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.

Adverbs for Incite
deliberately; treacherously; spitefully; vindictively; artfully; slyly; dangerously; perversely; intentionally; maddeningly; passionately; violently; overwhelmingly; excessively.

Thesaurus
abet, actuate, admonish, agitate, animate, annoy, arouse, awake, awaken, bestir, blow the coals, blow up, call forth, call up, caution, charge, compel, drive, drive on, egg on, encourage, enjoin, enkindle, enrage, excite, exhort, expostulate, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fire, flame, foment, forward, frenzy, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, heat, heat up, impassion, impel, incense, induce, inflame, influence, infuriate, inspire, instigate, issue a caveat, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, motivate, move, nettle, overexcite, persuade, pique, power, preach, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put in motion, put up to, rally, remonstrate, rouse, set agoing, set astir, set fire to, set going, set in motion, set on, set on fire, sic on, spur, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, thrust, tickle, turn on, urge, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, warn, whet, whip on, whip up, work into, work up

Etymology
From incitare: < in: + citare:, frequentative of ciere:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 煽起
 * Dutch: aanzetten, ophitsen
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 扇ぐ, 嗾ける
 * Kurdish: arandin, azirandin, cixirandin, sîqilandin, tehrîk kirin, lê sor kirin, teşwîq kirin, engizandin, belişandin, pîj kirin, ajawe kirin, provoke kirin, han dan, fît kirin, xiroşme kirin, cilixandin


 * Latin:
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese: incitar, provocar
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , разжигать
 * Spanish: amotinar
 * Turkish:

Related terms

 * incitement

Anagrams

 * intice