incited

verb

Definition of incitednext
past tense of incite
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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 Russia’s Vladimir Putin has incited Europe’s largest conflict since the Second World War and China’s Xi Jinping is remaking global institutions in his own image, bereft of democratic values. — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024 With the widespread medical advice advocating protective measures against UV radiation to ward against this, the view incited considerable backlash. — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 The Algerian boxer incited mass controversy by competing as a woman in the Paris Olympics despite allegedly being born with the XY chromosomes, which are associated with males. — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024

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