Instigate

What do we mean by instigate?

To initiate or bring about, often by inciting. transitive verb

To urge on; goad. transitive verb

To stimulate to an action or course; incite to do something; set or goad on; urge: generally in a bad sense: as, to instigate one to commit a crime.

To stir up; foment; bring about by incitement or persuasion: as, to instigate crime or insurrection; to instigate a quarrel.

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions. transitive verb

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

Serve as the inciting cause of verb

Provoke or stir up verb

To incite; to bring about by urging or encouraging

To goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions; to provoke

To start a conflict between other people just so you can watch. Can be between friends, between enemies, or between friends and enemies. Usually involves saying "he said she said you suck!" or some other much more colorful variant. Occasionally falls under the subtle art of interpreting a comment as incorrectly as is plausible. Urban Dictionary

A person who causes drama and/or conflict Urban Dictionary

Someone who tries to make everything inflammatory by encouraging escalation of actions, while pretending to be concerned about de-escalation, resolution, compromise, and intervention, or anything else that makes him/her look like a good person among bad people. Urban Dictionary

Someone who likes to fuck with people's lives more than they like to do anything else. Urban Dictionary

A person who escalates a situation. Urban Dictionary

A person who drags out a situation when it’s never that deep. Urban Dictionary

Someone that nobody will miss. Urban Dictionary

Someone that encourages escalation of actions, then pretends to be concerned about resolution, compromise, justice, intervention, and other shit like that once something bad does actually happen, they want everybody to love them all of sudden, no matter what they did or who they did or were involved in doing it to (a 7 year old kid, for example). Urban Dictionary

Someone that does something like hire and train a bunch of people to interrrupt violence when they know beforehand that it will not only lead to an increase in violence, but it will actually openly antagonize and provoke things that were not there already. Urban Dictionary

A person who drags out a situation, when it’s never that deep! Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to instigate:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word instigate:
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Words that rhyme with instigate:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe instigate:
many.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective instigate:
change, violence, action, procedures.

Words that sound like instigate:
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