Instigate vs Condemned - What's the difference?
instigate | condemned |
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.
Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
Having been sharply scolded.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 19
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, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
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Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
A person sentenced to death.
(condemn)
As verbs the difference between instigate and condemned
is that instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite while condemned is (condemn).As an adjective condemned is
having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.As a noun condemned is
a person sentenced to death.instigate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(instigat)- He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. -Bp. Warburton.
Usage notes
Commonly used with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.Synonyms
* (to goad or urge forward): animate, encourage, impel, incite, provoke, spur, stimulate, tempt, urgeAntonyms
* (to goad or urge forward): halt, prevent, stopDerived terms
* instigation * instigatorExternal links
* * ----condemned
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Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}