instigate
verb (used with object)
to cause by incitement; foment.
were instigating
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past progressiveof instigate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Many of them were firmly persuaded that the French were instigating the Indians to attack and cut them off.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
