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"text": "The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.",
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"text": "incite people to violence",
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"ref": "2018 October 15, Paul Mozur, “A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.",
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"ref": "2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Who and what exactly incited Amir?",
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"ref": "2020 January 9, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.",
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"(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action."
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"roman": "podstrekátʹ",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "подстрека́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podbivátʹ",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "подбива́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "e.g. hatred",
"roman": "razžigátʹ",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "разжига́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "codati",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "चोदति"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "incitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "concitar"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "sulsol"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "kışkırtmak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidbúrjuvaty",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "підбу́рювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pidbúryty",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "підбу́рити"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to rouse, stir up or excite",
"word": "kích động"
}
],
"word": "incite"
}
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