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The Meaning of provoke

  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.
  • (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