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Verb instigate has 2 senses
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- 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
Sample sentence:
They instigate him to write the letter
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