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单词 incite
释义
incite
(ɪnst )
Word forms: incites , inciting , incited
verb
If someone incites people to behave in a violent or illegal way, they encourage people to behave in that way, usually by making them excited or angry.
He incited his fellow citizens to take their revenge. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
The party agreed not to incite its supporters to violence. [VERB noun + to]
They pleaded guilty to possessing material likely to incite racial hatred. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: provoke, encourage, drive, excite  
Collocations:
incite a crowd
The home team's defense can incite the crowd to make noise, making it difficult for the offense to hear the quarterback's audibles.
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I'm supposed to incite the crowd.
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He causes the bodies to glow, which finally incites the crowd to riot, tearing down the fence and charging the samurai on the hill.
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This lead incited the crowd to protest against the police and burn down a police station and surrounding police cars.
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incite a mob
The same orator, however, should be perfectly free to publish his speech in a newspaper where it would not incite a mob.
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He started to incite the mob that was milling about the jail.
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A local school principal reportedly incited the mob into violence.
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To avoid inciting the mob, the sheriff decided not to remove the armaments, and the search party stayed in the church.
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incite a riot
Elsewhere, there have been at least 27 other cases of people arrested after making online postings apparently attempting to incite a riot.
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The board wondered if the signing of a superstar would, if not incite a riot, then damage morale.
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While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal.
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While five of the defendants were initially convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, all convictions were soon reversed in appeal court.
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The police were not charged but the protesters were accused of inciting a riot.
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incite subversion
Originally sentenced to three years for 'inciting subversion of state power', the activist vanished in 2009 while serving five years of probation.
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Now she faces trial on charges of 'inciting subversion of state power' that could send her to prison for 15 years.
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His sentence comes a month after two dissidents were jailed for nine and ten years for inciting subversion.
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He has been charged with inciting subversion.
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He could not receive the honour in person because he was in prison for 'inciting subversion of state power' by helping to write a pro-democracy and human rights manifesto.
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inciting a protest
He spent seven months in state penitentiary for inciting the protests and wasn’t pardoned until 25 years later.
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He was accused of inciting protests.
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Witnesses reported that government employees were involved in inciting the protests.
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