Incite vs. Mitigate
Difference Between Incite and Mitigate
Incite➦
encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour)
they conspired to incite riots
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Mitigate➦
make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful
drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem
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Incite➦
To provoke and urge on
troublemakers who incite riots.
inciting workers to strike.
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Mitigate➦
To make less severe or intense; moderate or alleviate.
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Incite➦
(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
incite people to violence
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Mitigate➦
To make alterations to (land) to make it less polluted or more hospitable to wildlife.
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Incite➦
To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite.
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Mitigate➦
(transitive) To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.
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Incite➦
give an incentive for action;
This moved me to sacrifice my career
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Mitigate➦
(transitive) To downplay.
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Incite➦
provoke or stir up;
incite a riot
set off great unrest among the people
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Mitigate➦
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
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Incite➦
urge on; cause to act;
They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
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Mitigate➦
To make mild and accessible; to mollify; - applied to persons.
This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.
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Mitigate➦
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
The circumstances extenuate the crime
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Mitigate➦
make less severe or harsh;
mitigating circumstances
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