Thesaurus: provoke

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1. 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.
2. v. i. To cause provocation or anger.
3. v. i. To appeal. [A Latinism]
4. v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
5. v. evoke or provoke to appear or occur
6. v. provide the needed stimulus for
7. v. annoy continually or chronically
8. 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. 1. To cause provocation or anger. 2. To appeal. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.
9. To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incenseto action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence,commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, bytaunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offendintolerably; 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 uslive. Milton.Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray.To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what itprovokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.
10. v:100 v. evoke or provoke to appear or occur v. provide the needed stimulus for