rabble-rouse
Stir up crowds
To rabble-rouse is to stir up public sentiment, especially by appealing to emotions like fear or anger rather than reason.
The term implies demagoguery—whipping up a crowd for political ends: He spent the rally rabble-rousing about immigration.
The noun rabble-rouser and adjective rabble-rousing are more common than the verb.
Urge toward action
- inflameIntensify emotion or irritation
- provokeIncite a response
- stir upCause to arise
- whip upCreate hastily
manipulate · exploit · fearmongering · scapegoat · populism · rhetoric · propaganda · firebrand
incite
Urge toward action
whip up · manipulate · exploit · fearmongering · scapegoat · populism · rhetoric · propaganda · firebrand · demagogue
harangue
Aggressive lengthy scolding
- orateSpeak formally, often pompously
- speechifyTalk long-windedly, formally
- preachDeliver religious discourse
declaim · exhort · tirade · diatribe · polemic · soapbox · megaphone · podium · crowd · chant
agitate
Disturb or provoke
rally · demonstrate · campaign · advocate · march · picket · boycott · sit-in · grassroots · movement
- troublemakingtroublemaker, troublemaking, instigate, agitator, instigating
- agitateagitate, stir, disturb, rile up, annoy
rabble-rouseunify
Combine into a whole
unite · reconcile · bring together · harmonize · heal
rouse, arouse, rousing, rabble, roused, rabble-rouser, rouses, rabble-rousing, rabble-rousers