Provoke
Word | PROVOKE |
Character | 7 |
Hyphenation | pro voke |
Pronunciations | /pɹəˈvəʊk/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Provoke"
What do we mean by provoke?
To incite to anger or resentment. transitive verb
To stir to action or feeling. transitive verb
To give rise to; bring about. transitive verb
To bring about deliberately; induce. transitive verb
To call forth or out; challenge; summon.
To stimulate to action; move; excite; arouse.
To call forth; cause; occasion; instigate.
To excite to anger or passion; exasperate; irritate; enrage.
Synonyms and To stir up, rouse, awake, induce, incite, impel, kindle.
Irritate, Incense, etc. (see exasperate), offend, anger, chafe, nettle, gall.
To appeal.
To produce anger or irritation. Compare provoking.
To cause provocation or anger. intransitive verb
To appeal. A Latinism intransitive verb
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. transitive verb
To cause someone to become annoyed or angry. verb
To bring about a reaction. verb
To appeal. verb
Annoy continually or chronically verb
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) verb
To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
To bring about a reaction.
To appeal.
Synonyms and Antonyms for Provoke
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