Instigate vs React - What's the difference?
instigate | react |
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite.
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
As verbs the difference between instigate and react
is that instigate is to goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite while react is .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
* * ----react
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Verb
(en verb)- to react''' a play; the same scenes were '''reacted at Rome