Associations to the word «Instigate»

Wiktionary

INSTIGATE, verb. To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.

Dictionary definition

INSTIGATE, verb. Provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people".
INSTIGATE, verb. Serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne