Fire and Instigate

Fire

Fire verb - To give life, vigor, or spirit to.

Usage example: a school outing to the natural history museum fired his imagination, and he grew up to become an eminent paleontologist

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Instigate and fire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Instigate" instead a verb "Fire".

Nearby Words: fired, fireball, firing, fireside, fireplace

Instigate verb - To bring (something volatile or intense) into being.

Usage example: the medical breakthrough instigated a whole new field of therapy

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Fire and instigate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fire" instead a verb "Instigate".

people	fire people	instigate people
time	fire time	instigate time

The late emperor decreed worlds that instigate rebellions to be rained fire upon from orbit.

Source: Video Game / House of the Dying Sun
Riz goes on to instigate ANOTHER hope spot when he tortures Laeil Burbank, cutting out her eye before setting the building they're in on fire and leaving her to die.

Source: Hope Spot
In episode five, Pizzaz helps instigate a massive drug epidemic in order to make Mayor Eo Jaxxon more famous, but only because he was threatening to have the entire police force disbanded and folded into the (far more competent and liked) fire department.

Source: Jerkass Woobie / Western Animation

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