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" I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners."
Sherwood Schwartz

Meaning of "instigate" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INSTIGATE

From Latin instīgāre to stimulate, incite; compare Greek stizein to prick.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF INSTIGATE

ˈɪnstɪˌɡeɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INSTIGATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Instigate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb instigate in English.

WHAT DOES INSTIGATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of instigate in the English dictionary

The definition of instigate in the dictionary is to bring about, as by incitement or urging. Other definition of instigate is to urge on to some drastic or inadvisable action.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INSTIGATE

PRESENT

Present
I instigate
you instigate
he/she/it instigates
we instigate
you instigate
they instigate
Present continuous
I am instigating
you are instigating
he/she/it is instigating
we are instigating
you are instigating
they are instigating
Present perfect
I have instigated
you have instigated
he/she/it has instigated
we have instigated
you have instigated
they have instigated
Present perfect continuous
I have been instigating
you have been instigating
he/she/it has been instigating
we have been instigating
you have been instigating
they have been instigating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I instigated
you instigated
he/she/it instigated
we instigated
you instigated
they instigated
Past continuous
I was instigating
you were instigating
he/she/it was instigating
we were instigating
you were instigating
they were instigating
Past perfect
I had instigated
you had instigated
he/she/it had instigated
we had instigated
you had instigated
they had instigated
Past perfect continuous
I had been instigating
you had been instigating
he/she/it had been instigating
we had been instigating
you had been instigating
they had been instigating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will instigate
you will instigate
he/she/it will instigate
we will instigate
you will instigate
they will instigate
Future continuous
I will be instigating
you will be instigating
he/she/it will be instigating
we will be instigating
you will be instigating
they will be instigating
Future perfect
I will have instigated
you will have instigated
he/she/it will have instigated
we will have instigated
you will have instigated
they will have instigated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been instigating
you will have been instigating
he/she/it will have been instigating
we will have been instigating
you will have been instigating
they will have been instigating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would instigate
you would instigate
he/she/it would instigate
we would instigate
you would instigate
they would instigate
Conditional continuous
I would be instigating
you would be instigating
he/she/it would be instigating
we would be instigating
you would be instigating
they would be instigating
Conditional perfect
I would have instigate
you would have instigate
he/she/it would have instigate
we would have instigate
you would have instigate
they would have instigate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been instigating
you would have been instigating
he/she/it would have been instigating
we would have been instigating
you would have been instigating
they would have been instigating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you instigate
we let´s instigate
you instigate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to instigate
Past participle
instigated
Present Participle
instigating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INSTIGATE

castigate · circumnavigate · congregate · delegate · desegregate · disaggregate · fatigate · fertigate · fumigate · fustigate · investigate · irrigate · litigate · mitigate · navigate · obligate · reinvestigate · segregate · variegate · vitilitigate

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INSTIGATE

instep · instigatingly · instigation · instigative · instigator · instil · instill · instillation · instilled · instiller · instilling · instillment · instilment · instinct · instinctive · instinctively · instinctivity · instinctual · instinctually · institorial

WORDS THAT END LIKE INSTIGATE

agate · aggregate · alligate · AND gate · colligate · exclusive OR gate · frigate · gate · in the aggregate · legate · levigate · ligate · profligate · Reigate · remigate · smifligate · strigate · subirrigate · suffumigate · tailgate

Synonyms and antonyms of instigate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INSTIGATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «instigate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «instigate» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF INSTIGATE

Find out the translation of instigate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of instigate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «instigate» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

发起
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

instigar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

instigate
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

भड़काने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحريض
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

подстрекать
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

instigar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

প্ররোচিত করা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

être l´instigateur de
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Embut
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

anstiften
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

扇動する
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

~하게 하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Instigate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gây loạn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தூண்ட
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

भ्रष्ट करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tahrik
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

promuovere
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wszcząć
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

підбурювати
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

instiga
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηθικοί αυτουργοί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aanhits
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inleda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of instigate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INSTIGATE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of instigate
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about instigate

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «INSTIGATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word instigate.
1
Charles Evans Hughes
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
2
Sherwood Schwartz
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners.
3
Liu Xiaobo
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSTIGATE»

Discover the use of instigate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to instigate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom: With the Divisions of the ...
They themselves purify the Buddha-field, and also others they instigate to purify the Buddha-field. Themselves they mature beings and others also they instigate to do the same. Themselves they produce the superknowledges and others also  ...
Edward Conze, 1985
2
Discourse Grammar and Typology: Papers in Honor of John W.M. ...
Cluster and coding, human 'S' +control +instigate -affected -control -instigate + affected 2.6.2 Factor cluster and coding, inanimate 'S' Because of the small number of inanimate 'S's that exhibit volition, there are very few inanimate 'S's in the ...
Werner Abraham, Talmy Givón, Sandra A. Thompson, 1995
3
Crime and Networks
Indeed, there are certainly individuals who meet these profiles in various datasets; however, these inquiries did not confirm that these particular individuals were the ones most likely to instigate group crime. Warr (1996) completed one of the ...
Carlo Morselli, 2013
4
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Armenia
General information about the founder and formation Instigate CJSC was founded in 2004 as a training and incubation center byVahagn Boghosyan ( brother ofthe chief executive officer) and Enno Wein, a German national. It was incorporated ...
Smita Kuriakose, 2013
5
Healing with the Medicine of the Prophet
A healthy person should instigate vomiting once or twice a month each time vomiting two times, so that the second vomit rids the body of the substances that remained after the first one. Excessive vomiting harms the stomach and weakens its ...
Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah, Imam Ibn Qayyim Al Jauziyah, Abdul Rahman Abdullah, 2003
6
Win at Work!: The Everybody Wins Approach to Conflict Resolution
Coworkers Who Instigate Conflict We've all had experience with people who drive us crazy at work for one reason or another. Often, the conflict we have with them affects us personally—we report to a boss who doesn't know how to manage ...
Diane Katz, 2010
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Human Motives and Cultural Models
Such goal- schemas as those for love and work, hy his example, can he thought of as "master motives" that "instigate action relatively autonomously." Other schemas such as those for marriage and "my joh" are middle-level motives that, while ...
Roy G. D'Andrade, Claudia Strauss, 1992
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Collective Rationality : Equilibrium in Cooperative Games: ...
Individuals may instigate a multimember coalition's formation. One individual may offer another individual a payoff increase so that she withdraws from a coalition and establishes a new coalition better for both. In the agreement game, because  ...
Paul Weirich Professor of Philosophy University of Missouri, 2009
9
The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer
... at, 3fc. aforesaid, unlawfully and wickedly solicit, instigate, persuade, and procure the said E. F. to go before one of the justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord the King, and to hear and determine divers ...
Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, 1831
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Violence: From Theory to Research
Aversive stimuli produced by nonhuman sources or accidental behavior should not instigate aggression, unless the person attributes negligence or intent to harm. Other forms of aversive stimuli may facilitate an aggressive response, but they ...
Margaret A. Zahn, Henry H. Brownstein, Shelly L. Jackson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INSTIGATE»

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Poll: Fears of Islamic extremism on the rise | TheHill
“As the Islamic militant group ISIS continues to entrench itself in Syria and Iraq, and instigate terrorist attacks around the world, concerns about ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Preschool under siege forced into twice daily syringe sweeps …
Director of Jarjum Centre in Lismore, Maurita Cavanough, has had to instigate twice daily sweeps of the preschool for syringes. Mireille Merlet- ... «Northern Star, Jul 15»
3
BATE sweating on star striker as kind draw ramps up Dundalk …
Athlone fear First Division clubs will disappear from the game unless urgent action is taken and want their proposals to at least instigate a ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
4
the triumph of experience over hope - The Guardian
Has anyone actually noticed the fall in the Euro followed on the heels of international pressure from outside the EZ to instigate QE. Reply | Pick. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Sheriff's/police reports - Times Gazette - timesgazette.com
Callers reported a white male not wearing a shirt beating on the front door of a residence trying to instigate a fight. The male left on foot, but ... «Hillsboro Times Gazette, Jul 15»
6
An Assertive Iran? Blame Buscheney, Not Obama | Leon T. Hadar
And for that we also need to thank again Boot and the costly military fiasco in Iraq that he helped instigate. Follow Leon T. Hadar on Twitter: ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
The Low Yat lesson: May 13 sequel unlikely but ethnic fault lines …
But Oh said Malaysia has a relatively low vulnerability to violence with only a small group wanting to instigate racial clashes, also noting that ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
8
Jose Maria Gimenez Will Be the Emerging Face of La Liga This …
The other part of Gimenez's game that needs work is his passing and ability to contribute to buildup play or instigate attacks. Unfortunately ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
9
Morning MoneyBeat: Why Sustainable New Highs Could Be Hard to …
Better-than-expected earnings typically lead to appreciation in the stock market. But they weren't enough to instigate a breakout during the last ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
10
RSS move against madrasas, claim they teach 'incomplete history'
Trinamool Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Idris Ali said the RSS was trying to instigate people over a non-issue. "Under the leadership of ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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