Incite vs Assist - What's the difference?
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To rouse, stir up or excite.
(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(label) To attend
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To help.
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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
A helpful action or an act of giving.
(sports) A statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
Incite is a related term of assist.
As verbs the difference between incite and assist
is that incite is while assist is (label) to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).As a noun assist is
a helpful action or an act of giving.incite
English
Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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English
Verb
(en verb)- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
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Derived terms
* assister * assistiveNoun
(en noun)- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- He had two assists in the game.