Usually means: Initiate or provoke action, situation.
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  1. instigate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instigate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instigate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instigate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instigate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instigate, instigate: Wordnik
  7. instigate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instigate: Wiktionary
  9. instigate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instigate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instigate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Instigate, instigate: Dictionary.com
  13. instigate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Instigate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Instigate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. instigate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. instigate: Rhymezone
  18. Instigate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. instigate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. instigate: Free Dictionary
  21. instigate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. instigate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. instigate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. instigate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instigate: Legal dictionary

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  1. instigate: Encyclopedia

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  1. instigate: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To bring about by urging or encouraging.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions.

Similar:
incite, inspire, set off, stir up, prompt, promote, induce, provoke, encite, stimulate, more...

Opposite:
quell, suppress, calm, pacify, appease

Phrases:
instigate action, opposite of instigate, to instigate, more...

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Similar:
incite, inspire, set off, stir up, prompt, promote, induce, provoke, encite, stimulate, more...

Opposite:
quell, suppress, calm, pacify, appease

Phrases:
instigate action, opposite of instigate, to instigate, more...

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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