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The Meaning of provoke
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.
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(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]
Synonyms
elevate
,
resurrect
,
force out
,
beset
,
send away
,
awake
,
levy
,
call forth
,
chivy
,
kick upstairs
,
give the sack
,
suggest
,
stimulate
,
lift
,
heighten
,
harry
,
upgrade
,
educe
,
dismiss
,
kick up
,
fire
,
leaven
,
chivvy
,
bring up
,
rouse
,
invoke
,
raise
,
wind up
,
recruit
,
inflame
,
chevvy
,
farm
,
extract
,
excite
,
grow
,
conjure
,
upraise
,
give the axe
,
prove
,
awaken
,
chevy
,
conjure up
,
conflagrate
,
molest
,
go off
,
displace
,
plague
,
wake
,
waken
,
turn on
,
enhance
,
give notice
,
terminate
,
fuel
,
arouse
,
wake up
,
can
,
sack
,
advance
,
perk up
,
stir
,
burn
,
burn down
,
put forward
,
sex
,
enkindle
,
evoke
,
rear
,
harass
,
draw out
,
set up
,
elicit
,
nurture
,
parent
,
energize
,
produce
,
erect
,
discharge
,
kindle
,
put up
,
promote
,
hassle
,
open fire
,
brace
,
energise
,
paint a picture
,
get up
,
call down
,
come alive
,
shake up
,
get
,
shake
,
hasten
,
make
,
cause
,
induce
,
have
,
rush
,
set upon
,
incrust
,
encrust
,
ravage
,
blight
,
affront
,
aggravate
,
exasperate
,
offend
,
vex
,
annoy
,
insult
,
wound
,
displease
,
irritate
,
tease
,
create
Antonyms
conciliate
,
content
,
gratify
,
honor
,
please
Rhymes
artichoke
,
awoke
,
backstroke
,
baroque
,
bloke
,
boak
,
boake
,
boeck
,
boeke
,
bouck
,
broke
,
choke
,
cloak
,
cloke
,
coke
,
countryfolk
,
croak
,
croke
,
doak
,
doke
,
droke
,
evoke
,
folk
,
goecke
,
goeke
,
gohlke
,
hoek
,
hoke
,
holyoke
,
invoke
,
joke
,
keystroke
,
knoke
,
koch
,
koke
,
kolk
,
larocque
,
laroque
,
misspoke
,
moacq
,
moak
,
moke
,
noack
,
oak
,
poke
,
polk
,
revoke
,
roanoke
,
roque
,
schmoke
,
schoeck
,
schroeck
,
scoke
,
sloke
,
slowpoke
,
smoak
,
smoke
,
snoke
,
soak
,
spoke
,
stoke
,
stroke
,
szoke
,
townsfolk
,
windhoek
,
woke
,
wolk
,
wouk
,
yoak
,
yoke
,
yolk