Wordnet Dictionary

Welcome

Wordnet Dictionary
Verb instigate has 2 senses
  1. incite, instigate, set off, stir up - provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
    --1 is one way to provoke, stimulate
    Derived forms: noun instigation2, noun instigant1, noun instigator1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
  2. prompt, inspire, instigate - serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"
    --2 is one way to induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make
    Derived forms: noun instigation1, noun instigation2, noun instigator2
    Sample sentence:
    They instigate him to write the letter
,
TOP