| incite | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel | give an incentive for action.; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" |
| ~ cause, do, make | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
| ~ impress, strike, affect, move | have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" |
| ~ move | arouse sympathy or compassion in.; "Her fate moved us all" |
| v. (communication) | 2. incite, instigate, set off, stir up | provoke or stir up.; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" |
| ~ provoke, stimulate | provide the needed stimulus for. |
| ~ raise | activate or stir up.; "raise a mutiny" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| v. (contact) | 3. egg on, incite, prod | urge on; cause to act.; "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" |
| ~ goose | prod into action. |
| ~ halloo | urge on with shouts.; "halloo the dogs in a hunt" |
| ~ goad | urge with or as if with a goad. |
| suggest | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. advise, propose, suggest | make a proposal, declare a plan for something.; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" |
| ~ advocate, recommend, urge | push for something.; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" |
| ~ advance, throw out | bring forward for consideration or acceptance.; "advance an argument" |
| ~ proposition | suggest sex to.; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party" |
| ~ feed back | respond to a query or outcome. |
| ~ put forward, posit, state, submit | put before.; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" |
| ~ make a motion, move | propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting. |
| ~ declare | state emphatically and authoritatively.; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" |
| v. (communication) | 2. hint, suggest | drop a hint; intimate by a hint. |
| ~ intimate, adumbrate, insinuate | give to understand.; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" |
| ~ clue in | provide someone with a clue.; "Can you clue me in?" |
| ~ convey | make known; pass on, of information.; "She conveyed the message to me" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| v. (communication) | 3. intimate, suggest | imply as a possibility.; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification" |
| ~ imply | suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic. |
| ~ make out | imply or suggest.; "Your remarks make me out to be stupid" |
| v. (communication) | 4. indicate, suggest | suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine.; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| v. (communication) | 5. evoke, paint a picture, suggest | call to mind.; "this remark evoked sadness" |
| ~ evince, express, show | give expression to.; "She showed her disappointment" |
| ~ reek, smack, smell | have an element suggestive (of something).; "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" |
| ~ incriminate, inculpate, imply | suggest that someone is guilty. |
| suggest | | |
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