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incitation

/in-sahyt/US // ɪnˈsaɪt //UK // (ɪnˈsaɪt) //

煽动,煽情,煽动性,煽惑

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·cit·ed, in·cit·ing.

    • : to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounstimulus

Examples

  • After being sent to solitary for inciting a hunger strike, he said he struggled to get care for covid symptoms.

  • The FDA said it is closely monitoring these situations and is teaming with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate what incited these responses.

  • In 2014, the theatrical opening of Half of a Yellow Sun, a fictionalized treatment of the Biafran War, was delayed over fears that some scenes would incite violence.

  • In addition to prohibiting spam and illegal content, it bans posts that are “hateful, threatening, harmful or incites violence.”

  • Last week, “Stop the Steal” groups rapidly gained hundreds of thousands of members and pushed related events protesting election outcomes, before Facebook banned one large group for inciting violence.

  • Some are not completed, others are reduced to a faint incitation which externally is scarcely perceptible.

  • Both Ballet and Stricker admit this fact, and it tends to prove that the sense of hearing is the primary incitation to speech.

  • He, himself, flung broadcast the fires of burning incitation without heeding or caring whither the flames might reach.

  • Is there anything that tends to incitation in sweetmeats more than in ordinary dishes?

  • The essential feature of the violin is the incitation of the vibration by means of the bow.