instigate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
provoke or stir up
incite a riot
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- act causes
- instigation derivation
- incitement derivation
- incitation derivation
- instigator derivation
- seditious derivation
Sense 2 verb
serve as the inciting cause of
She prompted me to call my relatives
Types & categories
- cause hypernym
Related & opposite
- instigation derivation
- prompting derivation
- instigation derivation
- initiator derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | causes | Related & opposite | act |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | incitement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | incitation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | seditious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | provoke |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | raise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prompting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | initiator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | cause |