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词汇 instigator
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Definition of instigator in English:

instigator

noun ˈɪnstɪɡeɪtəˈɪnstɪˌɡeɪdər
  • A person who brings about or initiates something.

    he was not the instigator of the incident
    any instigators of violence will be punished
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can architects become instigators of greater disaster-response collaboration?
    • The grizzled man is the instigator of all the troubles between Billy and the master-at-arms.
    • Men's health self-help is both an instigator and a product of this ideology.
    • The author thus implies that the means to understanding the causes of the violence and the motivations of its instigators lie in the study of the previous fourteen centuries.
    • In the manner of Late Roman politics the instigator of the new troubles, Arbogastes, had been instrumental in bringing down Maximus.
    Synonyms
    initiator, prime mover, motivator, architect, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind, originator, author, creator, founder, pioneer, father, mother, founding father, agent
    inciter, agitator, fomenter, troublemaker, agent provocateur, ringleader, leader
    literary begetter

Definition of instigator in US English:

instigator

nounˈinstiˌɡādərˈɪnstɪˌɡeɪdər
  • A person who brings about or initiates something.

    he was not the instigator of the incident
    any instigators of violence will be punished
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can architects become instigators of greater disaster-response collaboration?
    • The author thus implies that the means to understanding the causes of the violence and the motivations of its instigators lie in the study of the previous fourteen centuries.
    • In the manner of Late Roman politics the instigator of the new troubles, Arbogastes, had been instrumental in bringing down Maximus.
    • Men's health self-help is both an instigator and a product of this ideology.
    • The grizzled man is the instigator of all the troubles between Billy and the master-at-arms.
    Synonyms
    initiator, prime mover, motivator, architect, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind, originator, author, creator, founder, pioneer, father, mother, founding father, agent
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