INCITED Synonyms: 101 Similar and Opposite Words

incited

verb

past tense of incite

as in provoked

to bring (something volatile or intense) into being the rock band's failure to show up incited a riot, as the crowd had waited for hours

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as in encouraged

to rouse to strong feeling or action the demagogue's fiery rant incited the crowd to riot

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Recent Examples of incited Skillful organizers who belonged to the Communist Party incited mass movements during the 1930s and World War II. — Michael Kazin, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026 Bicentennial aesthetics incited localized, collectivist, and even ideological meaning-making about the American experiment in pluralism. — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Stock futures climbed Wednesday evening following a market sell-off incited by the first Federal Reserve interest rate hike in three years. — Justina Lee,tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 On that February 17 night, Mourinho suggested Vinicius Jr had incited the incident. — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Suddenly, the humble farmer has incited a countrywide uprising. — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026 Prosecutors allege the three journalists incited the suppression of student demonstrators during the uprising. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 The trade war incited a wave of rerouting goods through third-party countries, as well as led to companies under-reporting the value of goods or mislabeling products as alternative goods not subject to as high of import taxes. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 But during his visit, the fifth in line to the British throne incited more controversy by lashing out publicly after a High Court judge delivered a devastating ruling in his lawsuit against the Daily Mail. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

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Sectarian violence made religious mobilization increasingly unattractive, while foreign occupation provoked an awareness of Iraqi nationhood.

— Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
Even in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, the scale of the killings in such a short space of time has provoked shock.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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The treatments also lowered the production of inflammatory signals that cause long-term swelling, and stimulated new blood vessel formation to nourish healing skin.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
Serra then analogizes the spatial mediation stimulated by Shift to a verbal operation.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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