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Provoke Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Provoke?
[v] provide the needed stimulus for
[v] call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [v] call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" [v] annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked" Synonyms | Synonyms for Provoke: arouse | beset | call forth | chevvy | chevy | chivvy | chivy | elicit | enkindle | evoke | evoke | fire | harass | harry | hassle | kick up | kindle | molest | plague | raise | stimulate Related Terms | Find terms related to Provoke: See Also | agitate | anger | annoy | ask for | bedevil | bother | bruise | cause | chafe | challenge | create | crucify | devil | discomfit | discompose | disconcert | do | draw | dun | entice | excite | fire up | foment | frustrate | get at | get to | goad | gravel | heat | hurt | ignite | incite | infatuate | inflame | injure | instigate | interest | invite | irritate | jog | lure | make | make | nark | needle | nettle | offend | overcome | overpower | overtake | overwhelm | pick | prick | rag | rejuvenate | rekindle | rile | set off | shake | shake up | shame | spite | stimulate | stir | stir up | stir up | sweep over | tempt | torment | untune | upset | vex | wake | whelm | wound Provoke In Webster's Dictionary \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Provoked}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Provoking}.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call
forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice,
cry, call. See {Voice}.]
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense
to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition;
hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a
challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to
irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii.
21.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph.
vi. 4.
Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make
death in us live. --Milton.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray.
To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it,
what it provokes in his own soul. -- J.
Burroughs.
Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite;
anger. See {Irritate}.
\Pro*voke"\, v. i. 1. To cause provocation or anger. 2. To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Dryden. |
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