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

The word "provoke" in example sentences

Let them, as far as I am concerned, but it may short term provoke more counterreaction. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Today, another American legend, Mark Twain, celebrated for the power of his language and his ability to delight and provoke, is also under attack. ❋ Unknown (1994)

A very large part of our knowledge about immunity against bacteria and the diseases they provoke is therefore due to the action of haemolytic sera on red corpuscles, and it was only later that attempts were made to find out if, and in what measure, the detected properties apply equally to bacteria and the bacteriolytic sera. ❋ Unknown (1967)

God they provoke is just, and holy, and terrible, and not such a one as themselves. ❋ Unknown (1721)

No, the federal response the state of Arizona is trying to provoke is to police the damn border already. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its not just the number of responses, I think is important, but the kind of responses your posts provoke, that is the essense of what makes your blog so different. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And I'm very surprised that bin Laden, that al Qaeda would pull something on this scale knowing what the response was going to be unless that's what they intended to provoke, which is another theory. ❋ Unknown (2001)

They provoke, that is, a strong reaction, which it was also intended to use for therapeutic purposes. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Irish bailout terms provoke risk of revolt over next week's budget ❋ Henry McDonald (2011)

Irish bailout terms provoke risk of revolt over next week's budget Ireland will not give up low tax regime, Enda Kenny tells Angela Merkel ❋ Henry McDonald (2011)

We are not the only group whose activity cuts broadly across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but mathematicians, engineers, physicists, biologists, and computer scientists proudly retain their identities, no matter how scattered and diverse their working environments, and, of course, their titles provoke instant recognition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps the real alternative to the cumbersome processes of academic publishing, which place too little value on novelty and spontaneity, and to the distance from readers imposed by print publication is not the kind of call-and-reponse weblog post that leads to the impulsive quarrels to which Adam Kotsko rightly objects but a style of webwriting that seeks to illuminate rather than provoke, that isn't defined by the number of comments it invites but remains open to critical dialogue nevertheless. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(b) Did any later call provoke a further police response? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It would "provoke" by telling us what we don't know. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What had she done to "provoke" the beating she received from Chris? ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the only purpose in asking it was to kind of provoke him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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