Incite vs Foment - What's the difference?
incite | foment |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
(medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
* 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange , Norton (2005), page 1178,
Foment is a synonym of incite.
As verbs the difference between incite and foment
is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while foment is to incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.incite
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Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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* ----foment
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Verb
(en verb)- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.