Definitions for incite

incite in·cite

Spelling: [in-sahyt]
IPA: /ɪnˈsaɪt/

Incite is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in incite (ceiint).

Definitions for incite

verb (used with object)

  1. to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action:

Origin of incite

1475-85; Latin incitāre, equivalent to in- in-2 + citāre to start up, excite; see cite1

Examples for incite

Though Rabinowitz muses that something like this would not only be impractical but also incite severe backlash.

Dreams and talk of war may incite to war, but they may also satisfy the desire and need of war.

You have to like loyalty, no matter what the circumstances that incite it.

There is colossal marketing power to break down the barriers between ages and incite [children] to adopt adult behavior.

Few people touch that nerve and incite so much passionate conversation than Dunham and Girls.

For example, the MTA prohibits ads that “incite or provoke violence.”

There were none of the usual obstacles to incite them to matrimony.

To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.

You send them to the galleries to incite the admiration of the public?

Russell Brand is trying to use comedy to incite political revolution.

Word Value for incite
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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