Usually means: Stir up, provoke, encourage action.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word incite:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. incite: Merriam-Webster
  2. incite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incite, incite: Wordnik
  7. incite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incite: Wiktionary
  9. incite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incite: Dictionary.com
  13. incite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incite (band), Incite, Incite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incite: Rhymezone
  19. incite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incite: FreeDictionary.org
  22. incite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. incite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. incite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. incite: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  4. incite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. incite: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. incite: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. INCITE: Acronym Finder
  3. incite: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incite: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See incitant as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

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