Verb

• S: (v) motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite (give an incentive for action) "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
• S: (v) incite, instigate, set off, stir up (provoke or stir up) "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• cause
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) prod, incite, egg on (urge on; cause to act) "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window"