Incite vs Irritate - What's the difference?
incite | irritate |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
As verbs the difference between incite and irritate
is that incite is while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.incite
English
Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.